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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
François de La Rochefoucauld





Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald





A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw





Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Augustine of Hippo





The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius





Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo





There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato





It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de Balzac





The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein





Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza





I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America





There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi





Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde





The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle





Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin





A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery





My life has been nothing but a failure.
Claude Monet





I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein





Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci





There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
François Fénelon





The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli





Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Gustav Jung





A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Xenophon





Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain





There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Bertolt Brecht





Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin





An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






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