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Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Stephen Hawking / 





A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell





Hope may seem a kind of Leaf-joy, and like Gold, extremely ductile.
Francis Bacon / 





The mask is torn off, the reality remains.
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus - De rerum natura / 





The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein / 





The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama





There is no need to wait to be saved to be human.
André Comte-Sponville - L'esprit de l'athéisme / 





By your actions, you give me reason to believe you.
Publius Terentius Afer / 





Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
Henry David Thoreau





Action is decision, a choice, but it is also a wager.
Edgar Morin / 





No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical.
Niels Bohr





It is a great aim of prudence never to be embarrassed. It is the sign of a real man, of a noble heart, for magnanimity is not easily put out.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 





Let's not be English, French or German any more. Let's be European. No, not European, let's be men. Let's be humanity. All we have to do is get rid of one last piece of egocentricity - patriotism.
Victor Hugo / 





Where laws prevail, there can the people prevail.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 





I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable, if tasted in the house.
Henry David Thoreau / 





At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Charles de Gaulle / 





And knows that to win without danger is to win without glory.
Seneca - De Providentia / 





Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau





Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





He who controls himself once can always control himself.
Pierre Corneille / 





Cleopatra's nose: if it had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





To choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 





There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





One does not know completely a science as long as one does not know its history.
Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy / 





Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.
Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly / 





To me men are for what they are, They wear no masks with me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 





The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.
Jean-Paul Sartre / 






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