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Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables / 
 





Chance gives thoughts, and chance takes them away.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 
 





Philosophize is to learn how to die.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 





It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 





Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 





Men should strive to think much and know little.
Democritus - Fragments / 
 





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle / 





Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller - On the Aesthetic Education of Man / 
 





The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix / 





I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein / 





Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
Gustav Klimt / 



Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.



How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice / 
 



How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.



No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke / 





There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 
 





Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw - Heartbreak house / 
 





Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables / 
 





Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde / 



Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Image attribution  Background photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash




It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method / 
 





Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valéry / 





A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables / 
 





Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven / 





Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz / 





There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 





Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud / 





One must not trifle with love.
Alfred de Musset - On ne badine pas avec l'amour / 
 





Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein / 





I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert / 



I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Image attribution  Background photo by Stephen Leonardi on Unsplash




The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / 





Custom is second nature.
Augustine of Hippo / 





If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky / 






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