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Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.
Hermann Hesse / 





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





One is not born, but rather becomes, free.
André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie / 





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 





The opposite of humility is pride, and all pride is ignorance.
André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues / 





The language of truth is simple.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 





Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 





We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.
Simone de Beauvoir / 



Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.

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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.
Abbé Pierre / 





Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena / 





We have need of morality only for want of love.
André Comte-Sponville / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 





No man is weak by choice.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Man is the future of man.
Francis Ponge / 





Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein / 





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 





In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
André Gide - Ainsi soit-il ou Les jeux sont faits / 





I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus / 





I am rich in the goods that I can do without.
Louis Vigée - Poésies / 





Love truth, but pardon error.
Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom / 



Love truth, but pardon error.

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