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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
François Rabelais





Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus





Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle





Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian





Men's vows are women's traitors!
William Shakespeare





It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain





My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain





Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein





Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius





Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx





Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert





Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud





The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Paul Valéry





I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne





To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine





Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi





To do a great right do a little wrong.
William Shakespeare





A bad peace is even worse than war.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus





Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Publilius Syrus





For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle





Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius





Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle





We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
François de La Rochefoucauld





Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius





The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne





The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius





Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt





There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein





There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus





The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon






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