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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 / 





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





Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus / 





The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts / 





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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What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





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 / 





The language of truth is simple.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 





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





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





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





Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.
Abbé Pierre / 





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 / 





It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield / 





He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
John Stuart Mill / 





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





Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





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





I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





I am rich in the goods that I can do without.
Louis Vigée - Poésies / 





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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