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Man is the future of man."
Francis Ponge

future

The effort we make to be happy is never lost."
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur

happiness

Silence is often the truest wisdom."
Pindar

silence
wisdom

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

change
oneself

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

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
Mark Twain

It is never too late to give up our prejudices."
Henry David Thoreau

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide."
Paul Valéry

to hide

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

others

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

enthusiasm
success

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov

life
science
to know
wisdom

For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid

soul
youth

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing."
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel

wings

Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

happiness
others

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

mistake
to die

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles
Aeneid
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
All's Well That Ends Well
Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Apology of Socrates
Art Poétique
As you like it
Beyond Good and Evil
Candide ou l'Optimisme
Carnets
Chroniques
Citadelle
Codex Atlanticus
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Confessions
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Correspondance avec Élisabeth
Course in General Linguistics
Creative Evolution
Crisis of the Mind
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789
Dictionary of Received Ideas
Discourse on the Method
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
Eclogues
Ecoutez la chanson bien douce
Emile, or On Education
Encyclopédie
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Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy
Four Books of Human Proportion
Fruits of the Earth
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Green
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Hier et demain
Homilies on the First Epistle of John
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
Human, All Too Human
Il pleure dans mon coeur
Iliad
Impromptus
In My Own Way
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
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L'Art du roman
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Man and Superman
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
Tractatus de intellectus emendatione
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Tractatus politicus
Treatise on Tolerance
Twilight of the Idols
Utilitarianism
Zadig, or The Book of Fate

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