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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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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 /

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To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Lettre à M. Hume /

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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 /

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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 /

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

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Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.

André Comte-Sponville /

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

Immanuel Kant /

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

The wind is rising!... We must try to live!

The wind is rising!... We must try to live!

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If you have words stronger than silence, speak. If you do not have them, then remain silent.

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The dunes change with the wind, but the desert remains the same.

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist /

The dunes change with the wind, but the desert remains the same.

Background photo by Zack Woolwine on Unsplash

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

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The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four /

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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 /

I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland /

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