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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 / 





The effort we make to be happy is never lost.
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur / 





Silence is often the truest wisdom.
Pindar / 





To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.
Albert Einstein / 





Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.
Paul Valéry / 





Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov / 





The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 





He has what he desires who can limit his desires to what is enough.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 





In excessive altercation, truth is lost.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 





From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 





He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid / 



For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.




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