Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.

Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly /

To me men are for what they are, They wear no masks with me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.

Jean-Paul Sartre /

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Homer - Iliad /

Naught exists just as much as Aught.

Democritus - Fragments /

Each of us has the potential to contribute… You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau /

Every movement takes time and is for the sake of an end.

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics /

Modern technology's golden promises have turned into a threat.

Hans Jonas - The Imperative of Responsibility /

To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen - The fairy tale of my life /

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - L'Amour médecin /

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

I don't know whether it can be or not; but I know well enough that so it is.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - L'Amour médecin /

The wise are sparing both of time and words.

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

Love has no price but love.

Friedrich Schiller - Don Carlos /

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Everyone has his own glasses. But no one knows for sure what color the lenses are.

Alfred de Musset /

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

friendship

The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

The meaning of politics is freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain /

May I venture at this point to state the greatest, the most important, the most useful rule of education? It is: do not save time, but lose it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

People who want something strongly enough are almost always well served by chance.

Honore de Balzac /

All good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau /

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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle /

Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince /

Asses would rather have straw than gold.

Heraclitus of Ephesus /

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein /

Fortune only changes for those who do not know how to conform to their times.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

Everything in the world depends on bright ideas and firm decisions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

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