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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

John Stuart Mill - On Liberty /

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Torquato Tasso /

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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Emanuel Swedenborg /

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon - Essays /

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All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince /

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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield /

Change alone is the constant.

Arthur Schopenhauer - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life /

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections /

The sun is new each day.

Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments /

The sun is new each day.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus - Handbook (Enchiridion) /

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety /

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet /

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

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Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America /

Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.

Émile Zola - Germinal /

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

The language of truth is simple.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.

René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy /

Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.

Simone de Beauvoir /

Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.

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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena /

We have need of morality only for want of love.

André Comte-Sponville /

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