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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.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being /

to choose

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 /

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

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Hippocrates - Epidemics 1 and 3 /

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 /

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four /

freedom of expression

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

beauty

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux - Épîtres /

to live

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.

A phrase often attributed to William Butler Yeats - Quotation of uncertain origin /

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

I can take my freedom as a goal only if I take the freedom of others as a goal as well.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism /

Man will be what he will have planned to be.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism /

Great things only require to be simply told.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

The conviction of the mind does not always bring along with it that of the heart.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Doubt always arises from the fact that things are investigated without order.

Baruch Spinoza /

Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist /

It is doubtless a fine harmony when doing and saying go together.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

The Sage will bear the name of insane, and the Just the name of unjust, if in their search for Virtue they go beyond what is sufficient.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles /

The passions have taught men reason.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

The passions have taught men reason.

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