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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
François de La Rochefoucauld





Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin





I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde





Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
François de La Rochefoucauld





Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon





A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli





Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark Twain





Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller





If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne





Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer





All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates





There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de La Bruyere





Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci





Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza





Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon





Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre





Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions / 





But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon





It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Jean de La Bruyere





Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato - Phaedo / 





Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin





There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine





We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
François de La Rochefoucauld





Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato





It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard





There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon





There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





Hatred is inveterate anger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






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