I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela

• courage
• fear
• to learn

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris

Man is the future of man.”
Francis Ponge

• future
• Man

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle

• future

Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein

• difficulty
• harmony
• simplicity

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.”
Paul Valéry - Tel quel

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

• others
• to understand

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

• enemy
• tolerance

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill - Quotation of uncertain origin

• enthusiasm
• success

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”
André Gide

• doubt
• truth

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

• change
• oneself
• world

I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

• opinion

I am rich in the goods that I can do without.”
Louis Vigée - Poésies

• wealth

Love truth, but pardon error.”
Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom

• forgiveness
• mistake
• truth

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To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

• happiness
• others

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain

• danger
• idea

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

• decision
• greatness
• Man

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur

• optimism
• pessimism
• will

I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.”
René Descartes - Correspondance avec Élisabeth

• joy
• strength
• to dare

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

• to be

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

• consciousness
• science
• soul

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To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

• life
• love
• to live

Hope stole into my heart against my will.”
Jean Racine - Phèdre

• heart
• hope

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet

• flower
• painting

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon - Novum organum

• time
• truth

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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
Epicurus

• friendship
• trust

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
Leonardo da Vinci

• present
• time
• water

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations

• intelligence
• Language
• philosophy

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
Seneca

• future
• pleasure
• present

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

• life