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There are no contradictions in nature.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

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We do not have enough self-respect to disregard the contempt of others.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus /

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Nobody wants to introduce as many reforms as children do.

child

Only truth can face injustice. Truth, or love.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being /

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics /

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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

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

Learn to know yourself, and descend into yourself.

Pierre Corneille - Cinna /

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There is no real action without will.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Art aims at impressing feelings on us rather than expressing them;

Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness /

The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Claude Debussy /

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela /

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

One characteristic of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified. The symbol of justice, a pair of scales, could not be replaced by just any other symbol, such as a chariot.

Ferdinand de Saussure - Course in General Linguistics /

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon /

Never confuse movement with action.

Ernest Hemingway /

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

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Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

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Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

When you have time you have freedom.

Guillaume Apollinaire /

In the happiness of others I seek my own.

Pierre Corneille - Le Cid /

When we work for material ends alone, we build ourselves our own prison.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Wind, Sand and Stars /

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

oneself

Every effect is an event different from its cause.

David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding /

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

One light of the Sun, even though it be sundered by walls, by mountains, by a myriad other barriers.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

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