Date: 1644, 1647
"In later years the mind is no longer a total slave to the body, and does not refer everything to it."
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1665
"There is no passion in which love of self rules so despotically as love, and we are always more inclined to sacrifice the loved one's tranquillity than to lose our own."
preview | full record— La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de (1613-1680)