"Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient."

Henry Miller

Destiny and Fate

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

George Eliot "The Mill on the Floss"

Family and Loneliness

Marriage

Woman and Man

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

André Gide

Sin and Conscience

"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Joseph Addison "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Friendship and Hostility

Joy and Sadness

"Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal."

Max Heindel

Truth and Falsity

"We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below. "

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Human

"Man is a luxury loving animal."

Eric Hoffer

Human

"Truth is the light; So you never give up the fight."

Bob Marley

Truth and Falsity

"Any man who thinks he deserves heaven is not a Christian. But for any man who knows he deserves hell there is hope."

Lloyd-Jones-Martyn "The Cross"

God and Religion

"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."

Winston Churchill

Manners and Ethics

"Of course a platonic relationship is possible - but only between husband and wife."

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Love

Marriage

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

Cesare Lombroso

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

George Bernard Shaw

Truth and Falsity

"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Egoism

Envy

"Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering."

Francois Rabelais

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

"I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you."

Jane Wagner "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [...]"

Life and Death

"There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."

Quentin Crisp "The Naked Civil Servant"

Art and Culture

"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."

Thomas Carlyle "Sartor Resartus"

Human

"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."

Al Gore

Various

"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."

Logan Pearsall Smith "Afterthoughts"

Happiness

"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."

Rabindranath Tagore

Life and Death

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

Robert Lee Frost

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Work and Laziness

"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."

Irving Berlin

Life and Death

"Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily."

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Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

"In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty."

English Proverbs

Friendship and Hostility

Richness and Money

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason."

Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Ignorance

"True love never grows old."

Catalan Proverbs

Love

Youth and Age

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

Albert Einstein

Power and Weakness

"Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

Henry Miller

Destiny and Fate

"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."

John Osborne "The Hotel in Amsterdam"

Trust

Truth and Falsity

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

H. G. Bohn

Normality and Madness

Science and Technology

"Striving for better life we waste the one we already have."

Agnieszka Lisak

Happiness

Life and Death

"Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose as your friend if she were a man."

Joseph Joubert

Marriage

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Mark Twain

Work and Laziness

"No rules for success will work if you don't."

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Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

"Never lend money. It causes amnesia."

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Memory

Richness and Money

"The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Human

Power and Weakness

"If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist."

Quentin Crisp "The Naked Civil Servant"

Reality and Imagination

Wit and Humor

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

Phyllis Diller

Family and Loneliness

"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!"

Stendhal "The Charterhouse of Parma"

Love

Youth and Age

"Justice is truth in action."

Benjamin Disraeli (or Joseph Joubert)

Justice

Truth and Falsity

"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."

Will Rogers

Envy

Richness and Money

"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

Napoleon Hill

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Life and Death

"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Peace and War

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Family and Loneliness

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

Clive Staples Lewis

God and Religion

"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."

Henry Kissinger

Peace and War