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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 / 





You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
Anne Frank / 





It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers / 
 





There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
Charles Baudelaire / 





Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something.
Bertolt Brecht / 





It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





Philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 





Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 





Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.
Jean Racine - Les Plaideurs / 
 





Few maxims are true in every respect.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 
 





If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon / 





Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan Watts / 





If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela / 





We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 
 





Reason does not know the interests of the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 
 





The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





Everyone has the right to happiness, but nobody has the right to destroy the happiness of others.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





All that is mine I carry with me.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 
 





To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Lettre à M. Hume / 
 





The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein / 





Simplicity is the result of maturity.
Friedrich Schiller / 





And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist / 
 





Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
François Fénelon / 





Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Madame de Staël / 





When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 





You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun
Jacques Prévert / 





If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle / 
 






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