Friedrich Nietzsche

• "In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
• "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
  
• "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
  
• "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
  
• "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
  
• "Man is the cruelest animal."
  
• "Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
  
• "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
  

Lao Tzu

• "He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know."
  
• "To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."
  
• "Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."
  
• "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."
  
• ""When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be"
  
• "At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
  
• "Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
  

Langston Hughes

• "Dig and be dug in return."
  

William Ernest Henley

• "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
  

Sylvia Plath

• "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through."
  

Dorothy Parker

• "You might as well live."
  

Ginsberg

• "I saw the great minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
  

Milan Kundera

• "We live everyday as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
  

Aristotle

• "Evil brings men together."
  
• "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
  
• "Happiness depends upon ourselves."
  
• "A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
  

Jane Austen

• "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
  
• "Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."
  
• "I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
  

Albert Einstein

• "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
  
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
  

Confucius

• "Where ever you go, go with all your heart."
  
• "Have no friends not equal to yourself."
  
• "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
  
• "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
  
• "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
  
• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."
  
• "When anger rises, think of the consequences."
  
• "What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
  
• "Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."
  
• "If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
  

Robert Frost

• "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
  
• "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
• "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
  

Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
  
• "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  
• "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
  
• "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
  

Ovid

• "All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
  
• "To be loved, be lovable."
  
• "Time the devourer of all things."
  
• "Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."
  

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
  
• "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
  
• "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
  
• "It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
  
• "Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away."
  
• "One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
  
• "Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them."
  
• "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
  

Oscar Wilde

• "Genius is born--not paid."
  
• "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
  
• "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
  
• "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
  
• "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
  
• "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
  

Voltaire

• "...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
  
• "History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
  
• "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
  

Henry David Thoreau

• "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
  
• "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
  
• "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
  
• "My friend is one... who take me for what I am."
  

Sophocles

• "No man loves life like him that's growing old."
  
• "To him who is in fear everything rustles."
  

Socrates

• "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
• "The unexamined life is not worth living."
  

William Shakespeare

• "I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
  
• "I am not bound to please thee with my answers."
  
• "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'."
  

Plato

• "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
  
• "Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
  
• "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
  
• "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
  

Omar Khayyam

• "Keep yourself from worries and sorrow, seize with all your might this fleeting life, yesterday is already far, tomorrow not yet arrived; be happy for a moment, this moment is your life; fill the bountiful cup, life is disgrace, drunkenness grace."
  

Marcello Rubini

• "You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home."

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