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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein /





War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler /





Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius /





Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo /





Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire /





We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw /





God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Xenophanes /





The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert /





We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi /





Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler /





The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville /





It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne /





Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
Desiderius Erasmus /





Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu /





If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul Sartre /





He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy /





Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci /





The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald /





Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
François Rabelais /





Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato /





Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato /





There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle /





Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw /





Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz /





Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius /





It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire /






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