We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

~ Schopenhauer








Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

~ Confucius







Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

~ Socrates




From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

~ Friedrich Engels






Bad men are full of repentance.


~ Aristotle







It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.


~ Nietzsche








The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.


~ Aristotle











Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.


~ Rousseau








And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

~ Plato






I love those who do not know how to live for today.


~ Nietzsche







The measure of a man is what he does with power.


~ Plato








Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

~ Nietzsche






Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

~ Saint Augustine







People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

~ Epictetus






There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

~ Leibniz






What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

~ Nietzsche








Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

~ Rousseau









Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

~ Sartre












No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

~ Aristotle










After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

~ Schopenhauer




The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.


~ Schopenhauer







The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

~ Plato








Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

~ Chapman Cohen








There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.


~ Spinoza







Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.


~ Thomas Henry Huxley