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The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi /





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





Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon /





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.
Albert Camus /





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 /





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





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 /





There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





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 /





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.
Socrates /





Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus /





Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde /





An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin /





War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valéry /





The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts /





Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
François de La Rochefoucauld /





Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle /





Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde /





I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde /





Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Soren Kierkegaard /





A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery /





Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Aristotle /





Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde /





When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde /





I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw /





There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /






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