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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Honore de Balzac

life

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

science

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Jean de La Bruyere

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Nicolaus Copernicus

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt /

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Albert Einstein

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

God helps those who help themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

education

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Benjamin Franklin

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

life

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

universe

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Gustav Jung

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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