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The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness /

others

Things which are without measure may not long endure.

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron /

Don’t wait for Plato’s Republic! Rather, be content if one tiny thing makes some progress, and reflect on the fact that what results from this tiny thing is no tiny thing at all!

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Have I done a neighbourly act? I am thereby benefited.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by “facts” but by our interpretation of the facts.

Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

Hans Jonas - The Imperative of Responsibility /

When I had all the answers, the questions changed.

Ethics is the aesthetics of the inside.

Pierre Reverdy /

We all err, but everybody errs differently.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ? - Quotation of uncertain origin /

mistake

Virtue is its own reward.

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virtue

I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.

Émile Zola - J'accuse… ! /

Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men /

Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect is worth more than renown, and honor is worth more than fame.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

value

He recognized in himself that power to forget which only children have, and geniuses, and the innocent. Innocent, overwhelmed by joy, he understood at last that he was made for happiness.

No improvement is too small or trivial to be worthwhile.

Theodor W. Adorno /

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling /

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein - The World as I See It /

There are mirrors for the face, but none for the mind.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

Denis Diderot /

Men at some time are masters of their fates;
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar /

Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.

Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle /

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Like plants, most men have hidden properties that chance alone reveals.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

Another cause of our poverty lies in our new needs.

Voltaire - The Man with Forty Crowns /

poverty

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

The beautiful: that which we do not want to change.

beauty

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Henry David Thoreau - Journal /

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.

William Butler Yeats ? - Quotation of uncertain origin /

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