Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - L'Amour médecin /

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

I don't know whether it can be or not; but I know well enough that so it is.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - L'Amour médecin /

The wise are sparing both of time and words.

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

Love has no price but love.

Friedrich Schiller - Don Carlos /

love

Everyone has his own glasses. But no one knows for sure what color the lenses are.

Alfred de Musset /

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

friendship

The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

The meaning of politics is freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain /

May I venture at this point to state the greatest, the most important, the most useful rule of education? It is: do not save time, but lose it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

People who want something strongly enough are almost always well served by chance.

Honore de Balzac /

All good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau /

good

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle /

Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince /

Asses would rather have straw than gold.

Heraclitus of Ephesus /

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein /

Fortune only changes for those who do not know how to conform to their times.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

Everything in the world depends on bright ideas and firm decisions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

Take courage from this despair.

courage

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics /

action

Perhaps men entertain as many truths as falsehoods; have as many good qualities as bad; feel as many pleasures as pains. But we like to malign human nature, in order to try to raise ourselves above the common level, and to acquire for ourselves the respect of which we strive to rob it. We are so presumptuous, that we imagine we can separate our own personal interests from those of humanity in general, and malign the human race without implicating ourselves. This absurd vanity has filled books of philosophy with diatribes against human nature. Man is in disgrace with all thinkers, who rival one another in accusing him of depravity. But perhaps he may be about to rise again and recover all his virtues; nothing is permanent, and philosophy, like clothes, music, architecture, &c, has its vogues.

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

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt /

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.

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

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

Francis Bacon /

virtue

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotisation, coming to your senses, but of course to do that you have to go out of your mind.

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