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Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.
Simone de Beauvoir / 





The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr. / 





The way up and down is one and the same.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 



The way up and down is one and the same.

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All men will become brothers.
Friedrich Schiller / 





You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
Anne Frank / 





It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers / 





There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
Charles Baudelaire / 





Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something.
Bertolt Brecht / 





It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 





Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.
Jean Racine - Les Plaideurs / 





Few maxims are true in every respect.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon / 





Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan Watts / 





If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela / 





We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





Reason does not know the interests of the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Everyone has the right to happiness, but nobody has the right to destroy the happiness of others.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





All that is mine I carry with me.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 





To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Lettre à M. Hume / 





The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein / 





Simplicity is the result of maturity.
Friedrich Schiller / 





And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist / 





Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
François Fénelon / 





Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Madame de Staël / 





When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun
Jacques Prévert / 





If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle / 





The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 






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