Frases de Thomas Browne

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“O mundo criado não passa de um simples parêntesis na eternidade.”

“Acreditar naquilo que é possível, não é fé, mas simples filosofia.”

“Tudo é artificial, uma vez que a Natureza é a arte de Deus.”

“Porque não considero o mundo como uma hospedaria, mas como um hospital; não como um lugar para se viver, mas para morrer.”

“Eróstato, que incendiou o Templo de Diana, ainda é lembrado, mas está quase esquecido quem o edificou.”

“Aristóteles, enquanto se esforça para refutar as ideias de Platão, acaba por atacar a si mesmo: pois seu "summum bonum" é uma quimera, e sua Felicidade é uma coisa que não existe.”

“A multidão: esse enorme pedaço de monstruosidade que, considerada a partir dos seus elementos, parece feita de homens e das criaturas sensatas de Deus; mas, considerada como um todo, forma uma enorme besta e uma monstruosidade mais horrível do que Hidra.”

“Nenhum homem pode criticar ou condenar justamente outro homem, porque nenhum homem conhece realmente o outro.”

“To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun”

“To keep our eyes open longer were but to set our Antipodes. The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and as some conjecture all shall awake again?”

“Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables.”

“That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.”

“To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.”

“I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.”

“Pursue Virtue virtuously.”

“To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.”

“Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.”

“But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his own executioner.”

“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.”

“How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.”

“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”

“Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.”

“Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.”

“Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies.”

“A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.”