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There are hurricanes in human affairs, tempests of passion, when it is wise to retire to a harbor and ride it out at anchor. Remedies often make diseases worse.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 
 



There are hurricanes in human affairs, tempests of passion, when it is wise to retire to a harbor and ride it out at anchor. Remedies often make diseases worse.

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Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Penal Law / 
 





To create is to live twice.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus / 
 





Examine men's ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





Education is another sun to those who are educated.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton / 





Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
Niels Bohr / 





The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr / 





The beard does not make the philosopher.
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The time has come to light the stars again.
Guillaume Apollinaire / 



The time has come to light the stars again.

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What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 
 





It is often easier to discover a truth than to assign to it its proper place.
Ferdinand de Saussure - Course in General Linguistics / 
 





Few people know how to be old.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 
 





Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.
Soren Kierkegaard / 





Few people ask from books what books can give us.
Virginia Woolf / 





All our analyses show us, in life, an effort to remount the incline that matter descends.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution / 
 





A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 





It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
A phrase often attributed to Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin / 





Dare to be wise, begin!
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 
 



Dare to be wise, begin!

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Think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl / 
 





Only he who loves something is something; to be nothing and to love nothing are identical.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach / 





No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan / 
 





Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 
 





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 
 





To laugh is proper to man.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 
 





There is no higher rule than that over oneself, over one's impulses: there is the triumph of free will.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 
 





We must cultivate our garden.
Voltaire - Candide ou l'Optimisme / 
 



We must cultivate our garden.

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No one can wear a mask for very long.
Seneca - On Mercy / 
 





While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





To will oneself free is also to will others free.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






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