Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorA hundred times a day we mock our own faults by criticizing them in others.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorKnowing much gives occasion to doubt more.
Aristotle
View AuthorIn reality, to live as a man means to choose a target - honor, glory, wealth, culture - and aim for it with all of one's conduct, for not ordering life towards a purpose is a sign of great foolishness.
Aristotle
View AuthorOnly by doing good can one truly be happy.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorThe man who shows solicitude and courtesy towards a foreigner demonstrates that he is a citizen of the world.
Simón Bolívar
View AuthorAs I love freedom, I have noble and liberal feelings; and if I am often severe, it is only with those who seek to destroy us.
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
View AuthorHuman life is like a path whose exit is a horrifying precipice; we are warned about it from the first steps; but the decree has already been pronounced: it is necessary to always move forward without being able to retreat.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
View AuthorThat all life is a dream and dreams are just dreams.
Albert Camus
View AuthorFor every free man who falls, ten slaves are born and the future grows a little darker.
Albert Camus
View AuthorThe solidarity of men is based on the movement of rebellion, and this, in turn, only finds justification in this complicity. We will, therefore, have the right to say that any rebellion that is authorized to deny or destroy this solidarity loses at the same time the name of rebellion and actually coincides with criminal consent.
Joseph Conrad
View AuthorLife is a farce: that mysterious arrangement of relentless logic for a futile purpose. The most one can expect from it is a certain self-knowledge, which comes too late, and a harvest of unquenchable regrets.
Cristina II
View AuthorLife is a traffic where losses and gains are balanced.