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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Torquato Tasso

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Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.

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

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

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

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A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

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

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

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All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

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Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

No man is weak by choice.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

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

Albert Einstein

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

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

Paul Valéry - Tel quel

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

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?

Michel de Montaigne - Essays

opinion

I am rich in the goods that I can do without.

Louis Vigée - Poésies

wealth

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus - Carnets

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine of Hippo - De patientia

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus - L'Été

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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Know or listen to those who know.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Have courage to use your own reason!

Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

Have courage to use your own reason!

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A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.

William Butler Yeats

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