It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

~ Aristotle


This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

~ Saint Augustine




Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

~ Montesquieu




Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

~ Aristotle





In the affairs of the world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it.

~ Benjamin Franklin









The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

~ Aristotle




If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

~ Epicurus




Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

~ Sartre





The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

~ Martin Heidegger





Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

~ Schopenhauer





The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

~ Schopenhauer




For time is the longest distance between two places.

~ Tennessee Williams




Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

~ Nietzsche




May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

~ Kant




Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

~ Rousseau





It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.

~ Descartes




We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

~ Nietzsche





Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

~ Nietzsche





The less men think, the more they talk.

~ Montesquieu





Words are loaded pistols.

~ Sartre






First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

~ Epictetus




Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

~ Epictetus






Life begins on the other side of despair.

~ Sartre




A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

~ Sartre



Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

~ Rousseau




All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

~ Tennessee Williams