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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin

life

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

Honore de Balzac

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

art

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt /

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

truth

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Bernard de Mandeville

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

science

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

love

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

truth

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli

change

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

happiness

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Desiderius Erasmus /

writing

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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