Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There are two Italies… The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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