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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel de Montaigne

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Friedrich Schiller

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Albert Einstein

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

François Rabelais

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mahatma Gandhi /

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.

William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Hemingway

We do not judge the people we love.

Jean-Paul Sartre /

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

George Bernard Shaw

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