Venture into the most inspirational collection of quotes, maxims and aphorisms.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

• knowledge
• to live

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde - Quotation of uncertain origin

• oneself
• others

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

• happiness
• to hide

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

• decision
• happiness
• health

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We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

• doubt
• to know

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

• life
• Man

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

• prejudice

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet

• flower

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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.”
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus

• action
• Human nature
• to understand

Seize the day.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes

• day
• now

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

• life
• self-confidence

Have courage to use your own reason!”
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

• courage

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.”
William Butler Yeats

• education

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

• wind

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It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.”
Arthur Rimbaud

• eternity
• sun

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A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• smile

One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.”
Antisthenes

• difficulty
• evil

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham

• happiness

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• intelligence
• love
• value

All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

• day

To have and not to give is in some cases worse than stealing.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• to give

No man is weak by choice.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

• Man
• weakness

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela

• courage
• fear
• to learn

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin

• day
• life

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris

Man is the future of man.”
Francis Ponge

• future
• Man

Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein

• difficulty
• harmony
• simplicity

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.”
Paul Valéry - Tel quel

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