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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

There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

thing
to hide

We admire the world through what we love.”
Alphonse de Lamartine

love
world

Responsible one is not only for what you do but also for what it does not.”
Laozi

responsibility

There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

love
to hide

If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

others

Learning to love is why we are here.”
Abbé Pierre

love
to learn

I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.”
Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos

Human nature
Man

The aim of living is Life itself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

life

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
Niccolo Machiavelli

to be

You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.”
Alan Watts

now
to live

There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

law
Man
strength

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain

danger
idea

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

heart

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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

decision
Man

One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.”
André Breton - Le revolver à cheveux blancs

word

The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

day
laughter

Time is a great master; it regulates things well.”
Pierre Corneille - Sertorius

time

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

love

Hide your life and spread your spirit.”
Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres

life
mind
to hide

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

It is not enough to take steps, which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

life
theory

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,

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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

day
life
to live

Miss one person and the world seems empty.”
Alphonse de Lamartine

solitude

Miss one person and the world seems empty.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard

experience
life

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon

time
truth

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

nature
wisdom

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard

freedom
freedom of expression
thought

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles
A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues
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A Woman of No Importance
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