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



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 / 
 





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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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet / 



I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon - Novum organum / 
 



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.
Leonardo da Vinci / 



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.
Victor Hugo - William Shakespeare / 
 



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.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 





There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





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.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





Seize the day.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes / 
 



Seize the day.



Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 
 





The best is the enemy of good.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary / 
 





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 
 



We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.



If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.
Lewis Carroll / 



If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.

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... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science / 
 





Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years / 
 





Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead / 





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus / 
 





Freedom is more precious than any gifts for which you may be tempted to give it up.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 
 





The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher / 
 





What then can be his escort through life? One thing and one thing only, Philosophy.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





It is proper, since we are human beings, not to laugh at the misfortunes of others, but to mourn.
Democritus - Fragments / 
 





The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
Plato - Republic / 
 





Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 
 






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