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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

oneself
others

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

knowledge
to live

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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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

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo

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

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

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Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur

optimism
pessimism
will

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

flower

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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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

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

life
self-confidence

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

education

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

life

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

wind

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

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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

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

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

weakness

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.”
Albert Einstein

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

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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

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

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

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

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It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain

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

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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