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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle /





In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler /





A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus /





God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi /





The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde /





They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare /





I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw /





Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway /





Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Martin Heidegger /





God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Augustine of Hippo /





God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine of Hippo /





The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde /





In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Henri Bergson /





A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac /





And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare /





The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare /





Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw /





Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius /





Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein /





Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates /





Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi /





Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle /





I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein /





No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon /





For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery /





God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valéry /





God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon /





Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire /






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