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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare





Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian





Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin





The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi





Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius





No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato





Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Gustav Jung





Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
François de La Rochefoucauld





The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Paul Valéry





Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi





That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius





The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de Balzac





As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates





Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard





There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso





For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire





The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle





It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
Abbé Pierre





Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero





My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi





To know nothing is the happiest life.
Desiderius Erasmus





One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert





Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus





Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway / 





Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso





Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






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