Quotations
- A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain. - William Shakespeare
- Action is eloquence.
- William Shakespeare
- And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of. - William Shakespeare
- And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. - William Shakespeare
- Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
- William Shakespeare
- Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- William Shakespeare
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare
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- Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
- William Shakespeare
- For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
- William Shakespeare
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- Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. - William Shakespeare
- Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. - William Shakespeare
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- God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
- William Shakespeare
- He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- William Shakespeare
- His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! - William Shakespeare
- How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
- William Shakespeare
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- How use doth breed a habit in a man.
- William Shakespeare
- I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
- William Shakespeare
- I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
- William Shakespeare
- I dote on his very absence.
- William Shakespeare
- I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- William Shakespeare
- I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood. - William Shakespeare
- I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. - William Shakespeare
- I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve. - William Shakespeare
- I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
- William Shakespeare
- I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare
- I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again. - William Shakespeare
- Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
- William Shakespeare
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- In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
- William Shakespeare
- In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
- William Shakespeare
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- In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
- Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
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- Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein
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- Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein
- Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
- Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
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- I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein
- I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
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- If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein
- If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
- Imagination is more important than knowledge...
- Albert Einstein
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- It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
- Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein
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- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
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- Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- Albert Einstein
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- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
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- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
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- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein
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- The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
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- The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
- The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
- The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
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- To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein
- Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
- Albert Einstein
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- Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein
- Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
- A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
- Aristotle
- A friend is a second self.
- Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Aristotle
- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
- Aristotle
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- Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
- Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- Aristotle
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- It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
- Aristotle
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
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- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle
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- Law is mind without reason.
- Aristotle
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- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle
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- One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
- Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
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- Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- Aristotle
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- The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle
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- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- Aristotle
- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle
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- To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
- Aristotle
- To perceive is to suffer.
- Aristotle
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- We are what we repeatedly do.
- Aristotle
- Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
- Evil brings men together.
- Aristotle, (attributed)
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics
- - More quotations on: [Friendship]
- Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
- Aristotle, Eudemos
- ...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- Voltaire
- A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
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- All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
- Voltaire
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- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire
- Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
- Voltaire
- Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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- Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
- Voltaire
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
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- God is always on the side of the big battalions.
- Voltaire
- History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
- Voltaire
- I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
- Voltaire
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- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
- Voltaire
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- Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- Voltaire
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- Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
- Voltaire
- It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
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- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire
- Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Voltaire
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- Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Love truth, and pardon error.
- Voltaire
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- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire
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- Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Voltaire
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- Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
- Voltaire
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- Regimen is superior to medicine.
- Voltaire
- The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire
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- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Voltaire
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- The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire
- There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
- Voltaire
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- Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire
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- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Voltaire
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