Bertrand Russell
View AuthorSlander is always simple and plausible.
Bertrand Russell
View AuthorWhen you encounter opposition, even if it comes from your husband or your children, try to overcome it through reason and not authority, for a victory based on authority is unreal and illusory.
Bertrand Russell
View AuthorBe honest, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it becomes even more inconvenient when you try to hide it.
Muslih-Ud-Din Saadi
View AuthorExcessive severity breeds hatred, just as excessive indulgence weakens authority.
Jean Paul Sartre
View AuthorThe cowards are those who take shelter under the rules.
Friedrich Schiller
View AuthorSpeaking with a lot of courtesy sometimes wins people over and other times becomes cloying.
Arthur Schnitzler
View AuthorThe strength of character often amounts to nothing more than weakness of feelings.
Albert Schweitzer
View AuthorTo the question of whether I am optimistic or pessimistic, I respond that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my will and hope are optimistic.
Walter Scott
View AuthorHe who climbs a ladder must start at the first rung.
George Steiner
View AuthorInhumanity is perennial.
Stendhal
View AuthorHaving a firm character is to have a long and solid experience of life's disappointments and misfortunes.
Stendhal
View AuthorTo know man, it is enough to study oneself; to know men, one needs to live among them.