Venture into the most inspirational collection of quotes, maxims and aphorisms.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

• knowledge
• to live

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Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

• happiness
• to hide

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

• decision
• happiness
• health

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We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

• doubt
• to know

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
Seneca - De Vita Beata

• happiness
• life
• oneself

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

• Age
• life
• Man

All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

• child

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”
Alan Watts

• illusion
• to think

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

• prejudice

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

• wind

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde - Quotation of uncertain origin

• oneself
• others

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.”
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus

• action
• Human nature
• to understand

Seize the day.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes

• day
• now

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

• life
• self-confidence

Have courage to use your own reason!”
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

• courage
• reason

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.”
William Butler Yeats

• education

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

• good
• Justice

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

• wind

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It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.”
Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité

• eternity
• sun

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”

• child
• earth

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A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• smile

One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.”
Antisthenes

• difficulty
• evil

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham

• happiness

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• intelligence
• love
• value

The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

• day

To have and not to give is in some cases worse than stealing.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• to give

No man is weak by choice.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

• Man
• weakness