12 ideas
| 7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
| 21677 | How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero] |
| 10245 | One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré] |
| 7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
| 21667 | Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero] |
| 21678 | If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero] |
| 7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
| 9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |