A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

• progress
• will

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.

William Butler Yeats

• education

The language of truth is simple.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

• Language
• simplicity
• truth

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo

• nature
• to understand

The stars of your destiny are in your heart.

Friedrich Schiller

• destiny
• stars

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité

• eternity
• sun

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

• child
• earth

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A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• smile

One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.

Antisthenes

• difficulty
• evil

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Jeremy Bentham

• happiness

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• intelligence
• love
• value

The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

• day
• joy

To have and not to give is in some cases worse than stealing.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - Aphorismen

• to give

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

Change alone is the constant.

Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

• change

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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung

• others
• to understand

The sun is new each day.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

• day
• sun

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

• dream
• life

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

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

• danger
• evil
• world

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.

Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

• happiness
• the unknown
• to hide

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

• absurd
• philosopher
• to learn

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