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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates /





The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Mark Twain /





If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin / 





People do not lack strength they lack will.
Victor Hugo /





We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper /





Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert Camus / 





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 /






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