Quote of Oscar Wilde - Every saint has a past and...

Biography - Oscar Wilde:

Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Quote

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde

Translation

(French, German)

Chaque saint a un passé et chaque pécheur un avenir.”
Oscar Wilde

Jeder Heilige hat eine Vergangenheit und jeder Sünder hat eine Zukunft. ”
Oscar Wilde

Quotes about the past:

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Gautama Buddha

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Jean de La Bruyere

The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.”
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

All about the past...

Quotes about the future:

Man is the future of man.”
Francis Ponge

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
Seneca

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Jean de La Bruyere

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
Alan Watts

The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All about the future...

Oscar Wilde also said...

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”
Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Oscar Wilde

tragedy

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde

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