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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





It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
François de La Rochefoucauld





A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw





You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius





There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon





Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato





If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin





The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon





Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo





Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven





Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer





Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire





Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain





Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci





Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de Balzac





The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac





The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci





Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire





Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Soren Kierkegaard





To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius





Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant





Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
Martin Heidegger





Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer





The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud






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