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It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays
Michel de Montaigne - Essays
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Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur
I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.”
René Descartes - Correspondance avec Élisabeth
René Descartes - Correspondance avec Élisabeth
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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
Leonardo da Vinci
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus - L'Été
Albert Camus - L'Été
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Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées
Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;”
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères
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