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Nature abhors a vacuum.

François Rabelais

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

History

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

anger

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

education

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

love

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Gustave Flaubert

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Augustine of Hippo

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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