Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

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.

Pablo Picasso /

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

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.

Mahatma Gandhi /

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.

Mahatma Gandhi /

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 /

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