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





Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière / 





Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





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 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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The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
Plato - Republic / 





Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing / 





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.
Paulo Coelho / 





A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
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A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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Though men be much governed by interest; yet even interest itself, and all human affairs, are entirely governed by opinion.
David Hume - Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary / 





One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.
André Gide - Fruits of the Earth / 





To be in love is to surpass one's self.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray / 





It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





In all intense joy there is a feeling of gratitude.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





There is measure in all things.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus / 





Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World / 





A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





The art of living well, is of all the arts the greatest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 





Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.
Albert Camus / 





Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Francis Bacon / 





Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau / 





Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.
Simone de Beauvoir / 





The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr. / 





The way up and down is one and the same.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 



The way up and down is one and the same.

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All men will become brothers.
Friedrich Schiller / 






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