Quotes by Alexander Pope

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Those who deserve to be praised, bear more easily to be criticized.

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To err is a trait of man, to forgive, of the gods.

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Some people learn nothing because they understand everything too quickly.

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Lack of modesty is a defect of the mind.

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Our opinions are like clocks: each shows a different time, but each man trusts his own.

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The most gullible people are the most serious.

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Hope, which accompanies us all our lives, does not leave us even at the moment of death.

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We would wonder less that our neighbors walk in bad company if we remembered that people usually do not seek companions to listen, but to talk.

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The sea unites the countries it separates.

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Silence is the bane of fools and the cunning of the wise.

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There is no microscope that magnifies so much as the eyes of the self-admirer

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The importance God places on wealth can be seen by the people to whom he has given it.

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Man is as confused as his understanding is limited.

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He who lies does not realize the weight of his mission, because he will have to lie twenty more times to support the first lie.

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To try to influence the vulgar man with gentle and refined words is like trying to carve a block of stone with a razor.

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Words are like leaves: the tree that produces many leaves bears very little fruit.

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The public is ignorant.

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To get angry is to vent your anger for the wrongs of another.

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Buying books just because they're printed by a famous publisher is like buying an out-of-season suit just because it's made by a famous tailor.

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Party spirit is a madness of the many for the benefit of the few.

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The best government is the one that governs as little as possible.

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When men, growing old, become benefactors, they only sacrifice to God the remains of the devil.

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Every man differs from another and day by day differs from himself.

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The divine right of kings - to rule badly.

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The disease is a kind of early old age.

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There is so much arrogance in every man that his mind cannot help him.

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In all parties, assemblies, sects, the rudest are also the most fanatical.

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We all float on the waves of the ocean; reason serves as our compass, and passions are the winds that drive us.

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The mind is strengthened by exercise, and not by silence.

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In all my life I have not met a single man who did not endure the troubles of his neighbor as a true Christian.

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A new commandment said: the happy wait for nothing, lest they be disappointed.

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All fools have no mood unless they are making fun of someone.

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Little knowledge is dangerous, drink Mússák's springs for a long time or don't drink at all: sipping it will make you drunk, but take it well and this medicine will sober you up.

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The strength of our mind lies in movement, not inactivity.

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Know yourself, there is no God; let the human race decipher man!

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Hope is immortal, and it is so precious outside that no mortal shackles will ever make it a prisoner.

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The fool rushes in, where even the angel only steps in fear.

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Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too quickly.

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To be angry is to take revenge for the mistakes of others.

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My boyfriend is not perfect and neither am I - so we are a perfect match.

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How happy is he who is blameless. The world also forgets who has already forgotten. This is the eternal radiance of the immaculate mind! The prayer is answered, and the wish is renounced.

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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people to whom He gave a lot of it.

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The darkness of night sat on nature and its laws. God said: - Let there be Newton! - And everything was revealed.

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Words are like letters; and where there are most of them, they rarely leave room for the fruit of the intellect.