Famous quotes by Authors

"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Silence is a source of great strength"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides"

Lao Tzu, Author

"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins"

Lao Tzu, Author

"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy"

Lao Tzu, Author

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox"

Lao Tzu, Author

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Know people for who they are rather than for what they are"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Run to meet the future, or it's going to run you down"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Dear God! How beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Conscience is God present in man"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Puns are the droppings of soaring wits"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your own life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be, except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking"

Ben Sweetland, Author

Ben Sweetland

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

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