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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire





She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw





Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius





There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac





Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon





If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde





Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer





It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle





Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle





True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein





Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin





It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Charles Baudelaire





Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw ? - Quotation of uncertain origin / 





The future is the worst thing about the present.
Gustave Flaubert





The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts





Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras





So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus





Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde





Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso





'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery





Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius





Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de La Bruyere





To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato





Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
Noam Chomsky





For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon





We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
François de La Rochefoucauld





I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain






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