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People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 



People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?

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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell / 





Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a single prejudice, is a benefactor of mankind.
Nicolas Chamfort - Discours sur l'influence des grands écrivains / 





When in doubt, follow the suit of the wise and prudent.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 





Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil / 





Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Bertrand Russell / 





It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.
André Comte-Sponville / 





Language is a source of misunderstanding.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 





The Owl of Minerva begins her flight only at the coming of twilight.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Elements of the Philosophy of Right / 





Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals / 





The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille - The Liar / 



The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.



Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.
Charlie Chaplin / 





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Wisdom is harmony.
Novalis - Fragments / 



Wisdom is harmony.

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Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
Nelson Mandela / 





Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor W. Adorno - Minima Moralia / 





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation / 





The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard Phillips Feynman / 





Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.
André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie / 





Become who you are!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





You cannot hold the day back, but you can avoid wasting it.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen / 



"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

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The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
Vincent Willem van Gogh / 



The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.



People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
Albert Einstein / 



People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 





One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
André Gide / 






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