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Aeschylus

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Aristotles

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotles

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals.  When separated from law and justice, is the worst of all.

Sathya Baba

Being a good example is the best form of service.

Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Cervantes

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Cicero

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Darwin

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Demosthenes

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Diderot

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

Walt Disney

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Epictetus

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epicurus

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Benjamin Franklin

He that can have patience can have what he will.-“Honesty is the best policy.

Du Fu

Wind, light and time ever revolve; Let us then enjoy life as best we can.

Plinius Gaius

Simple diet is best.

Galeano

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Goethe

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Hawthorne

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Hemingway

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Heraclitus

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Hesiod

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Hippocrates

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Walking is the best medicine.

Homer

Always be first and best and never embarrass your ancestors.

Hypatia

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Isokratis

Consider sufficient what you have in the present, but don't stop to look for the best.

William James

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Samuel Johnson

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Frida Kahlo

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Maria Kallas

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Kipling

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Eino Leino

He who a single one loves is blessed – beloved of everybody. Whoever self-interest forgets the best will blessèd dreams embody.

Primo Levi

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

John Locke

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Rosa Luxemburg

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Gabriel Marquez

Don't struggle so much, best things happen when not expected.”

Somerset Maugham

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Michelangelo

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

John Milton

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Gabriela Mistral

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Moliere

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Mozart

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Nietzsche

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Bismarck von Otto

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck von Otto

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.

Valery Paul

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Valery Paul

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Pericles

Time is the best counselor.

Petrarca

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Pindar

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

A. Edgar Poe,

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Carl Rogers

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

Bertrand Russell

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give

Schiller

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Frank Sinatra

I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra

The best revenge is massive success.

Skinner

A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Solon

The best city is where those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Sophocles

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

William Thackeray

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Thackeray

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Thales

The best democracy has neither too rich nor too poor citizens.

Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Walt Whitman

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”

Iannis Xenakis

"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."