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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 /





It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain /





I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde /





Your library is your paradise.
Desiderius Erasmus /





True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw /





It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant /





No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein /





For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus /






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