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Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven / 





Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz / 





There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud / 





One must not trifle with love.
Alfred de Musset - On ne badine pas avec l'amour / 





Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein / 





I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert / 



I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Image attribution  Background photo by Stephen Leonardi on Unsplash




The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / 





Custom is second nature.
Augustine of Hippo / 





If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky / 





Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle / 





All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci / 





Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle / 





Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 





Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain / 





Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire / 





People must help one another it is nature's law.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables / 





Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gérard de Nerval / 



Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Image attribution  Background photo by Annie spratt on Unsplash




Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton / 





All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw / 





It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare / 





They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius / 





Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables / 





Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein / 





Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valéry - Tel quel / 





Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frédéric Chopin / 





I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus - Carnets / 





If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






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