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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare /





Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.
Plato /





The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud /





It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi /





The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin /





Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Karl Marx /





Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire /





She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw /





Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius /





There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac /





Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon /





If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde /





Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer /





It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle /





Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle /





True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein /





Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin /





It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Charles Baudelaire /





Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
A phrase often attributed to George Bernard Shaw - Quotation of uncertain origin / 





The future is the worst thing about the present.
Gustave Flaubert /





The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts /





Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras /





So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus /





Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde /





Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso /





'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery /





Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius /






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