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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato





It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle





One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud





Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich





This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire





Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer





The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw





In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare





Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine





Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi





In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle





Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain





Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
François de La Rochefoucauld





It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw





A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo





A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard





The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
Gustave Flaubert





To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah Arendt





Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery





The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein





The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Sigmund Freud





Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach





There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard





Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire





Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain





Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius





As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Noam Chomsky





Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






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