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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle /





The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud /





Power without abuse loses its charm.
Paul Valéry /





Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein /





It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon /





No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare /





At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato /





Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein /





Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw /





The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway /





We do not judge the people we love.
Jean-Paul Sartre / 





The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw /





True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates /





He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire /





Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo /





Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine /





Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin /





Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire /





Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx /





It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein /





The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein /





It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert /





Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato /





Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon /





How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus /





Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud /






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