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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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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice / 



How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.



It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus / 





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires / 





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard / 





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 





He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 



He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

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Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi / 



Where there is love there is life.

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution / 





My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus / 





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud / 





There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin / 





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein / 





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt / 





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo / 





Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht / 





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / 





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus - The Plague / 





My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






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