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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
Henri Grouès





Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery





Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato





You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Gustave Flaubert





Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer





In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Publius Vergilius Maro





Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Democritus





I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates





In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle





The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein





In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde





He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne





The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato





Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius





A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli





Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius





I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi





He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin





It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
Julius Caesar





If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld





No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus





In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway





There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
François de La Rochefoucauld





When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius





In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Hypatia





Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle





The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire






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