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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

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A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

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One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.

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 /

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Jeremy Bentham /

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Intelligence has value only in the service of love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Nelson Mandela /

The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

To do good needs no consideration.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris /

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To have and not to give is in some cases worse than stealing.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - Aphorismen /

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield /

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela /

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris /

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell /

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau /

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill ? - Quotation of uncertain origin /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Let the other side be heard as well.

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The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu /

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

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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 /

I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.

René Descartes - Correspondance avec Élisabeth /

Time is a great master; it regulates things well.

Pierre Corneille - Sertorius /

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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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