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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.






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






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.






One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.



One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

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



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.






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






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






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






Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 






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






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






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



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.






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






The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.






Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.



Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

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To live means to love, but above all, to love life.






Hope stole into my heart against my will.



Hope stole into my heart against my will.

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.



I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.



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.



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



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




The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.






There is more to life than increasing its speed.






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.






Seize the day.



Seize the day.




Consciousness of our powers augments them.






But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.







Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.










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