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Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

life

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Benjamin Franklin

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Charles Baudelaire

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Albert Einstein

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

freedom

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Friedrich Schiller

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

Jean de La Bruyere

death

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

William Shakespeare

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

time

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

painting

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

happiness

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Gustave Flaubert

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

perfection

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