Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

• time

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

• good
• others

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

• oneself
• others
• sage

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary

• dance
• world

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

• sage

To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.

René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy

• philosophy
• to live

The Owl of Minerva begins her flight only at the coming of twilight.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Elements of the Philosophy of Right

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

Simone de Beauvoir

• action
• decision
• past
• present

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

• action
• law

Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.

Simone de Beauvoir

• harmony
• Individual

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What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary

• forgiveness
• mistake
• tolerance
• weakness

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays

• knowledge
• science

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

Nelson Mandela

• Justice
• poverty

When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.

Jules Renard

• happiness
• others

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Nelson Mandela

• difficulty
• freedom

We have need of morality only for want of love.

André Comte-Sponville

• love
• morality

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor W. Adorno

• love
• strength
• weakness

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

André Gide

• oneself
• others
• to learn
• to understand

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Phillips Feynman

• compassion
• laughter
• to understand

Become who you are!

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

• to be

You cannot hold the day back, but you can avoid wasting it.

• day

When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays

• anger

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield

• laughter
• oneself
• to learn

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

Hans Christian Andersen

• flower
• freedom
• to live

  Background photo by Yuichi Kageyama on Unsplash

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.

Vincent Willem van Gogh

• art
• love

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Albert Einstein

• Man

  Background photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

• rose
• time

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Mark Twain ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

• day
• life

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