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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 / 
 





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 / 
 





To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell / 





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 
 





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - De oratore / 
 





But the most beautiful of all doubts
Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and
Stop believing in the strength
Of their oppressors.
Bertolt Brecht - Lob des Zweifels / 
 





One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Ethics / 
 





Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.
Voltaire - Épîtres / 
 





If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness will follow. Like a shadow that never leaves.
Gautama Buddha / 






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