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"Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
"The more you know, the less you need to say"
Jim Rohn, Businessman
"Night is the mother of counsels"
George Herbert, Poet
"Patience is the companion of wisdom"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"You always admire what you really don't understand"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"No, when the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
"Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity"
Camille Paglia, Author
"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"They would need to be already wise in order to love wisdom"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things, but how we see them"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well"
Peter Ustinov, Actor
"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal"
William James, Philosopher
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"
Maya Angelou, Poet
"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much"
Billie Jean King, Athlete
"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all"
Ovid, Poet
"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are"
Ovid, Poet
"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance"
Leo Buscaglia, Author
"I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone"
Peter Steele, Musician
"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
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