Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of History /

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain /

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur /

Love, love, all the rest is nothing.

Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon /

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine of Hippo - De patientia /

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus - L'Été /

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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Know or listen to those who know.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

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Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung - Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten /

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

Have courage to use your own reason!

Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? /

Have courage to use your own reason!

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Perhaps peace is more than happiness.

Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

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What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

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A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.

Bertolt Brecht /

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo /

The stars of your destiny are in your heart.

Friedrich Schiller /

I accept the great adventure of being me.

Simone de Beauvoir /

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason /

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité /

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

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A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

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One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.

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