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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza / 





This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 





Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard / 





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon / 





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein / 





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / 





Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
Paul Valéry / 





Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus / 





The word flies and cannot be recalled.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 





To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 



To be, or not to be, that is the question.

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 



Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things.
Publius Vergilius Maro / 





Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





The storms of youth occur between days of brilliant sunshine.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





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





Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 





Love, and do what you will.
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John / 



Love, and do what you will.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion / 



Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

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The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 



The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.

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What's done cannot be undone.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth / 





And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 / 






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