The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Time is the fairest and toughest judge. - Edgar Quinet
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
- Edgar Quinet
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while a… - Edgar Quinet
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while a…
What we share with another ceases to be our own. - Edgar Quinet
What we share with another ceases to be our own.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. - Edgar Quinet
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes… - Edgar Quinet
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes…
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. - Edgar Quinet
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. - Edgar Quinet
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot. - Edgar Quinet
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. - Edgar Quinet
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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