Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
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John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport.
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John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. John von Neumann 18401 The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.
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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset
We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
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Henry de Montherlant
Henry de Montherlant
We like someone because. We love someone although.
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
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Molière
Molière
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Molière
Molière
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Molière
Molière
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Molière
Molière
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
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Molière
Molière
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
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Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
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Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
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Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
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Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
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Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
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George Meredith
George Meredith
Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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Menandro
Menandro
Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endured long.
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François Mauriac
François Mauriac
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.
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