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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 /





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





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.
Oscar Wilde /





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.
Plato /





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 /





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





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.
Victor Hugo /





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.
Mahatma Gandhi /





What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle /





If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius /





My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw /





Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain /





Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain /





Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein /





I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar /





Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein /





The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus / 





It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Augustine of Hippo /





We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus /





For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Nicolaus Copernicus /





Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius /





Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
René Descartes /






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