Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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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
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
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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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
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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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Molière
Molière
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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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
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Molière
Molière
To live without loving is not really to live.
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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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Molière
Molière
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
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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
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
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Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
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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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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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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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George Meredith
George Meredith
Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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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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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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Bob Marley
Bob Marley
Open your eyes and look within.
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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
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Horácio
Horácio
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you.
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Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
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André Malraux
André Malraux
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love.
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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