“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
Source: Nausea
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“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
Source: No Greater Love
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
Source: Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”
Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth
Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“While there's life, there's hope.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
Source: De Officiis
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)
“The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.”
“I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.”
“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”
“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”
Source: Confucian Analects
“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
Source: THE ATLANTIS COLLECTION - 6 Books About The Mythical Lost World: Plato’s Original Myth + The Lost Continent + The Story of Atlantis + The Antedeluvian World + New Atlantis: The Myth & The Theories
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”