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Homer:Is an excellent omen, for one to defend his homeland.
Plato:One of the penalties for refusing to take part in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Voltaire:I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
E.L. Masters,:To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire.
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Jim Morrison:A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Schubert:Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Jules Verne:Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
Luther:Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would end, I would still plant my apple tree.
Cicero:Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Herman Melville:I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
Nikolai Gogol:Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
Plutarch:I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Richelieu:Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
Mary Shelley:Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Kavvadias:Always the perfect, unworthy lover
of the endless voyage and azure ocean
Kostis Palamas:Immortal spirit of antiquity,
Father of the true, beautiful and good,
Descend, appear, shed over us thy light
Upon this ground and under this sky
Amos Oz:A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
Upton Sinclair:It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Rabearivelo: All my thoughts tenderly surround my family.
Pinto Andrade:My goal is to reach the end satisfied and at peace with my loved ones and my conscience.
William James:The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Remarque:Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Nadine Gordimer:Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.
Marie Under: Ah, earthly life burns in a myriad splendours
Nino Rota:When I play the piano, I tend to feel happy, but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amidst the misery of others?
Krishnamurti:One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Henri Bergson:To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating yourself endlessly.
Raymond Queneau:One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Muhammad Iqbal:My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man
Aeschylus:Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
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.
Carl Sandburg:Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
Robert Scott:“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”
Marie Curie:“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
Galileo Galilei:“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Rochefoucauld:Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
Balzac:All happiness depends on courage and work.
Jane Austen:There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Lucian:Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.
Robert Burns:Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Albert Camus:Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Edna Milley:“My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.
Jean Genet:The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Mitropoulos:I only live for the moments I am in the podium and in order to live those moments, I spend my life preparing myself with discipline, doubts and humility.
Ahmad Javad:About these ruins that I see?!
Do the words that I write
Hurt your tender heart?
Saramago:A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
Herbert Marcuse:Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
Patrice Lumumba:Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men
Carlos Fuentes:You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
Igor Luchenok:Voithó tous anthrópous ópote écho tin efkairía. Óchi móno fílous, allá kai echthroús.
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I help people whenever I have the chance. Not only friends but also enemies.
Tchaikovsky:To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
Muhammad Iqbal:Failure is not fatal until we surrender
trying again is the key of glorious victory.
Cavafy:A month passes by and brings another month.
Easy to guess what lies ahead:
all of yesterday’s boredom.
And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.
Ovid:Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Octavio Paz:Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Exupery:If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Thomas Eliot:We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
Will Durant:Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Igor Stravinsky:Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
James Joyce:Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
Maurice Ravel:You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Herman Melville:Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Tennyson:No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Jane Austen:Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Calderon:In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it”
Albert Camus:Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Lamartine:Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends
Rajendra:There's no question of practising law here, it's almost a farce. I often have to suspend my sense of reality when I enter court.
Panait Istrati:Money does not heal hearts that have been hurt by love. On the contrary, it offends them…
Remarque:Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
Doris Lessing:What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Tin Moe:The cigar has burned down;
The sun is brown.
Send me home, my friends!
Nazrul:Let's forget today who is friend or foe,
and hold each other in caring embrace.
Wollstonecraft:Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
Per Lagerkvist:All human culture is but an attempt at something unattainable, something which far transcends our powers of realization.
Viktor Frankl:What is to give light must endure burning
Diogenes:As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Epictetus:The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Gandhi:An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
L. Martin King,:In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Laozi:To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Wilhelm Reich:You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
Sergei Prokofiev:
In my view, the composer,
just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter,
is in duty bound to serve Man, the people.
He must beautify life and defend it.
He must be a citizen first and foremost,
so that his art might consciously extol human life
and lead man to a radiant future.
Thomas Eliot:We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
Wassily Kandinsky:Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking!
Strindberg:Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
Kierkegaard:I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Boccaccio:People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
Rochefoucauld:We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Immanuel Kant:Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
Napoleon:Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Heinrich Heine:Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
Tesla:Instinct is something which transcends knowledge.
Jacqueline Romilly:When you think something is beautiful and useful it has to be defended, I believe that the crisis in the teaching of Greek hides a much deeper problem, the crisis of literary teaching in general.
Rajendra:My poems tend to be more a part of Third World studies than literature studies.
Kalidasa:Grief must be shared to be endured.
Adam Smith:Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Primo Levi:Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
Spinoza:The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
Wanda Landowska:Friendship is more important than truth.
Henri Bergson:The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend.
Thomas Aquinas:There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Seneca:For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Plinius Gaius:The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Aristophanes:Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Montesquieu:False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Pittacus:Forbear to speak evil not only of your friends, but also of your enemies
Laozi:If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Pindar:The present will not long endure.
Menander:It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Bob Marley:God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
Maria Kallas:Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Isaac Asimov:I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
W. Burroughs:You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
Khalil Gibran:And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
B. W. Yeats:There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
Graham Bell:The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Saadi:Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Balzac:Reading brings us unknown friends.
Jane Austen:We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Christina Rossetti:For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Umberto Eco:We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die
Thomas Paine:To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Gracian:A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Upton Sinclair:But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
Ionesco:Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Chairil Anwar:I don't intend to share fate,
Fate which is a universal loneliness.
Arthur Koestler:“Show us not the aim without the way.
For ends and means on earth are so entangled,
That changing one, you change the other too;.
Sinclair Lewis:There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Krishnamurti:There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Aeschylus:If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Francis Bacon:If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Darwin:Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Goethe:Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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?
L. Martin King,:Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Jackson Pollock:My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
John Keats:There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
Luther:There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Cicero:The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Jack Kerouac:Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Andre Breton:Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Thomas Eliot:This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Igor Stravinsky:My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.
Beethoven:Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Henry Miller:Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
Lucian:Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.
Beckett:Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Jean Genet:Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Amos Oz:Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.
Ionesco:Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
Jose Rizal:Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
Hemingway:There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Henry Thoreau:Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Doris Lessing:You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
Mario Benedetti:And, in the end, death is just a symptom that there was life.
Gabrielle Roy:Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
Raymond Queneau:Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
Kipling:Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Confucius:Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Freddie Mercury:I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
Maria Kallas:An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Frank Sinatra:I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Leon Trotsky:Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Hermann Hesse:“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
Renoir:“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”
Elder the Pliny:From the end spring new beginnings.
Galileo Galilei:The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Beethoven:Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Beckett:ll I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Upton Sinclair:Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Alexandre Dumas:Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Bach:I have always kept one end in view, namely… to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God.
Pericles:Freedom is the sure possession of those who have the courage to defend it.
Epicurus:The essence of philosophy is that a man should live so that his happiness will depend as little as possible on external things.
Isokratis:We try gold in fire, we know our friends in mishaps.
Durant Will:Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Goethe:There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Kipling:A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Aristophanes:Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Virginia Woolf:Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Montesquieu:In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Confucius:Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Freddie Mercury:I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
Anais Nin:All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Gabriela Mistral:Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
Lawrence:Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Anton Chekhov:Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Oscar Wilde:“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
Strindberg:He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.
Elder the Pliny:The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Plotinus:When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”
Rochefoucauld:he happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Sophocles:Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Proudhon:I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Robert Frost:A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Hemingway:“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Kunanbaev:Human dignity is determined by the path one follows to the end, not by what one achieves.
Henri Bergson:..Men do not sufficiently realize
that their future is in their own hands.
Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not.
Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live,
or intend to make just the extra effort required
for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet,
the essential function of the universe,
which is a machine for the making of gods.”
Pythagoras:Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Jackson Pollock:Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Bertrand Russell:“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Anton Chekhov:In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
Hawthorne:Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Plotinus:To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.”
Rochefoucauld:A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Rilke:For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible
Cervantes:The gratification of wealth is not found in possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Dostoevsky:If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Karl Marx:The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
William James:My experience is what I agree to attend to.
Andre Malraux:One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
Homer:The difficulty is not to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Darwin:A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Confucius:I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.
Thomas Eliot:We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
Leon Trotsky:There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
B. W. Yeats:Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
Mark Twain:Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Montaigne:If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Skinner: No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.
John Updike:Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Guru Nanak:Burn worldly love,
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit
Isokratis:Do not rush to make friends, but when you are, try to stay.
Hippocrates:Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the Gods, lend yourself a hand.
Victor Hugo:The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Gandhi:If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Exupery:Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
Franz Kafka:This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
Leo Tolstoy:In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Immanuel Kant:All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Karl Marx:Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
John Locke:Government has no other end than the preservation of property.” Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right.
Homer:While sane, nothing shall I compare with a friend.
Washington:Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Alexander Pope,:No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Isaac Asimov:There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Tagore:Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
Kierkegaard:A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke
Rochefoucauld:We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Schiller:Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Saramago:When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
John Locke:The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.”
Erich Fromm:As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
Darwin:On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Diderot:We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Montaigne:The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Aristophanes:Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
John Steinbeck:We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.
Bertrand Russell:The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Schopenhauer:Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
Khalil Gibran:Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Hermann Hesse:There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Voltaire:The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Oscar Wilde:Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Confucius:The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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.
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