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Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 
 





If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 
 





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 
 





Learning to love is why we are here.
Henri Grouès / 





A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin / 



A day without laughter is a day wasted.

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I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.
Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos / 
 





It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Philippe Quinault / 





The aim of living is Life itself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 





Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
Niccolo Machiavelli / 





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.
Alan Watts / 



You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.



There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince / 
 





Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 / 
 





Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 / 
 



Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.

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One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.
André Breton - Le revolver à cheveux blancs  / 
 



One word and all is saved One word and all is lost.



The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 
 





Hide your life and spread your spirit.
Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres / 
 





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson / 





...and nobody knows the extent of his strength until he has tried.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 





We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation / 
 





It is not enough to take steps, which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 





Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method / 
 





All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 
 



All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,

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Any man can make mistakes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Philippicae / 
 





Miss one person and the world seems empty.
Alphonse de Lamartine / 



Miss one person and the world seems empty.

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At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 
 





All I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates / 





Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard / 





If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ad Familiares, Letter IV to Varro / 
 



If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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