2、一切享有各种天然能力人,显然都是平等的,当他们发挥各种动物机能的时候,以及用他们的理智的时候,他们是平等的。
3、爱情好比鼓动的风,有时大风大浪,全舟覆没;但没有风,船又不能行动。胆汁使人愤怒,使人得病;但没有又不能活命。世界上没有一件东西不危险,又没有一样东西少的了。
4、You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
5、He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
6、爱情之中高尚的成分不亚于温柔的成分,使人向上的力量不亚于使人萎靡的力量,有时还能激发别的美德。
7、我们所有的人都有缺点和错误,让我们互相原谅彼此的愚蠢,这是自然的第一法则。
8、There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
10、disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say it.
------Voltaire
我不赞成你的意见,但我誓死保卫你的发言权.
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11、尊重不一定是接受
12、God created sex. Priests created marriage.
13、美德与过恶,道德上的善与恶,都是对社会有利或有害的行为;在任何地点,在任何时代,为公益作出最大牺牲的人,都是人们称为最道德的人。
14、Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
18、先生,我收到了你反对人类的新著,我感谢你。没有人会动用如此心力来教唆人类返回动物状态。读尊著,使人渴慕四脚爬行。谢天谢地,我遗忘这种习惯已经六十多年了。 ----《驳卢梭“论人类不平等的起源和基础”》
19、The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
20、书使人心明眼亮。
21、To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
25、Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ----《老实人》
26、几个苍蝇咬几口,决不能羁留一匹英勇的奔马。
28、人生布满了荆棘,我们知道的唯一办法是从那些荆棘上面迅速踏过。
30、愚昧是产生专制的唯一土壤