The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. ~ Schopenhauer



He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. ~ Plato

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

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
~ Plato

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
~ Schopenhauer

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
~ Nietzsche


Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.~ Nietzsche

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ~ Spinoza

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ~ Plato

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. ~ Aristotle

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ~ Sartre

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. ~ Nietzsche

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ~ Montesquieu

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. ~ Saint Augustine

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. ~ Nietzsche

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. ~ Epicurus

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

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ~ Leibniz

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. ~ Plato Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. ~ Schopenhauer In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. ~ Nietzsche Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. ~ Nietzsche Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ~ Spinoza Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ~ Plato The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. ~ Aristotle Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ~ Sartre One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. ~ Nietzsche Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ~ Montesquieu There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. ~ Saint Augustine The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. ~ Nietzsche The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. ~ Epicurus Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. ~ Sartre But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ~ Leibniz

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

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. ~ Plato