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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Life attracts life.

life

Every moment of life is a step towards death.

Pierre Corneille /

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

beauty

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Denis Diderot /

love

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

child

Find first, seek later.

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin /

The wise are wise only because they love.

love

This dark light which falls from the stars.

Pierre Corneille - Le Cid /

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come.
The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.
The time to build is upon us.

There is no substitute for the living.

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

The right to say and print what we think is the right of every free man, who cannot be deprived of it without exercising the most odious tyranny.

Voltaire - Questions sur les Miracles /

freedom of expression

Success always demands a greater effort.

Winston Churchill

success

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Augustine of Hippo

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus /

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

death

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.

Poet

Hope it is that nourishes love.

Publius Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses /

Fear: Gives one wings.

Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas /

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Philosophy only is the true one which reproduces most faithfully the statements of nature, and is written down, as it were, from nature's dictation, so that it is nothing but a copy and a reflection of nature, and adds nothing of its own, but is merely a repetition and echo.

Many scientists did not like the idea that the universe had a beginning, a moment of creation.

Stephen Hawking

Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

Albert Einstein /

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