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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire /





The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw /





Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato /





A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Jean Racine /





Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain /





Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer /





Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza /





We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de La Bruyere /





Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo /





The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx /





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





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.
Mahatma Gandhi /





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





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





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





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





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.
Plato /





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 /





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.
Albert Camus /





Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza /





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.
Noam Chomsky /





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.
Mahatma Gandhi /






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