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"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress"
Sydney J. Harris, Journalist
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Dream in a pragmatic way"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way"
David Carradine, Actor
"Acorns were good until bread was found"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now"
James A. Baldwin, Author
"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"To know nothing is the happiest life"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"Don't give your advice before you are called upon"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms!"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information, but makes our life in harmony with all existence"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
"The good and the wise lead quiet lives"
Euripides, Poet
"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent"
Euripides, Poet
"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account"
Euripides, Poet
"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself"
Samuel Johnson, Author
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