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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 /





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.
Mark Twain /





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.
Mahatma Gandhi /





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.
Socrates /





It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein /





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





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.
Voltaire /





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.
Karl Marx /





Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
Jean Racine /






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