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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Baltasar Gracian

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Martin Heidegger

History

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

happiness

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

talent

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Baltasar Gracian

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

Courage is a kind of salvation.

courage

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Honore de Balzac

love

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

power

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Jean de La Fontaine

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Publius Vergilius Maro

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

good

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare

death

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

death

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Soren Kierkegaard

truth

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

François de La Rochefoucauld

love

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Jean de La Bruyere

death

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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