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





Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.
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 / 





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.
Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon / 





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





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



Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

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





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



Hope stole into my heart against my will.

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



I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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



Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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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 / 



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.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts / 





Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo - William Shakespeare / 



Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.



Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





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





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





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Seize the day.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes / 



Seize the day.



Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.
Friedrich Hölderlin - Patmos / 





Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius / 





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 



We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.



If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.
Lewis Carroll / 



If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.

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What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 





But the most beautiful of all doubts
Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and
Stop believing in the strength
Of their oppressors.
Bertolt Brecht - Lob des Zweifels / 





Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 





Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.
Voltaire - Épîtres / 





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 






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