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Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 





Love, and do what you will.
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John / 



Love, and do what you will.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion / 



Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

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The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 



The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.

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What's done cannot be undone.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth / 





And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 / 





A property, of the rational soul is love of one's neighbour.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





One should, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / 





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière / 





While we wait for life, life passes.
Seneca / 





Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 



The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.

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The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
Plato - Republic / 





Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing / 





A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
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A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.
André Gide - Fruits of the Earth / 





To be in love is to surpass one's self.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray / 





It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





In all intense joy there is a feeling of gratitude.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





There is measure in all things.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus / 





A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





The art of living well, is of all the arts the greatest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 





Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.
Albert Camus / 





Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Francis Bacon / 





Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau / 






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