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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /





I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin /





No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt /





Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde /





I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway /





Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht /





Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin /





Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi /





As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
Alexis de Tocqueville /





Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein /





Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain /





The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin /





Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky /





To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke /





It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli /





Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
François Rabelais /





Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus /





Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle /





Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian /





Men's vows are women's traitors!
William Shakespeare /





It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain /





My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain /





Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein /





Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius /





Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx /





Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert /





Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud /





The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Paul Valéry /





I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne /






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