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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

With each heavy storm of rain
⁠Change comes o'er thy valley fair;
Once, alas! but not again
⁠Can the same stream hold thee e'er.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Dauer im Wechsel /

change

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus /

The struggle for world peace is the greatest battle of all.

peace

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

It is not the title that honors the man, but the man that honors the title.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 2 /

king

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

George Bernard Shaw

Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

Happiness is a rarer vocation than people suppose.

Simone de Beauvoir /

happiness

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James /

Don't just hope, learn to want.

André Comte-Sponville - Le bonheur : visions occidentale et chinoise. /

But I, being poor, have only my dreams.

William Butler Yeats /

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

Benjamin Disraeli

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare - Merry Wives of Windsor. /

We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.

Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus /

You can! Just will it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

will

Blessed is he who has overcome all passions and then proceeds energetically to perform his duties under all circumstances careless of success! Let the motive lie in the deed, not in the outcome.

Ludwig van Beethoven /

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens /

shame

What then can be his escort through life? One thing and one thing only, Philosophy.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

Bertrand Russell /

prejudice

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

question

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Simone de Beauvoir

The infinite and the eternal are the only certainty.

Soren Kierkegaard /

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

All things move onward to their term.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

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