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Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus / 





The word flies and cannot be recalled.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 
 





To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 
 



To be, or not to be, that is the question.

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 
 





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 
 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 
 



Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things.
Publius Vergilius Maro / 





Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 
 





The storms of youth occur between days of brilliant sunshine.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 
 





Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius / 





Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 
 





Love, and do what you will.
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John / 
 



Love, and do what you will.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 
 





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion / 
 



Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

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The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 
 



The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.

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What's done cannot be undone.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth / 
 





And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 
 





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 
 





To assail one's own wickedness and not assail that of others.
Confucius - Analects / 
 





Faithfully admonish your friend, and skillfully lead him on. If you find him impracticable, stop.
Confucius - Analects / 
 





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 / 
 





A property, of the rational soul is love of one's neighbour.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





One should, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / 





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière / 
 





While we wait for life, life passes.
Seneca / 





Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





The virtuous rest in virtue.
Confucius - Analects / 
 





Happiness is the purpose of philosophy, but not its criterion.
André Comte-Sponville - Le bonheur : visions occidentale et chinoise. / 
 





The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 



The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.

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Morality answers the question, “What should I do?”
Ethics answers the question, “How should I live?”
André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie / 
 






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