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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 /





Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx /





Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo /





As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde /





Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht / 





There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de La Bruyere /





The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid /





If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine /





A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw /





True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein /





The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Voltaire /





Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma Gandhi /





For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin /





Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper /





The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx /





Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato /





Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon /





We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de La Bruyere /





The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard /





Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare /





Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia / 
 





Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato /





Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde /





Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard /






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