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Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo - 





The stars of your destiny are in your heart.
Friedrich Schiller - 





It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité - 



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

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

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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 - 





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





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





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - 





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 - 





To have and not to give is in some cases worse than stealing.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - Aphorismen - 





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 - 





Change alone is the constant.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena - 





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 - 





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





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



One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

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





If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium - 



If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments - 



The sun is new each day.



Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau - 





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





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





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





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





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus - 





Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy - 



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



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



Love truth, but pardon error.

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





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





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - 



It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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