Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, trust, and justice.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorFreedom is incompatible with love. A lover is always a slave.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorThe mystery of life is the connection between our mistakes and our misfortunes.
John Steinbeck
View AuthorIn front of us there are a thousand different lives we could live, but when it arrives, it will only be one.
Stendhal
View AuthorI honor with the name of virtue the habit of carrying out painful and useful actions for others.
Stendhal
View AuthorCourage consists of knowing how to choose the lesser evil, no matter how horrible it may seem.
Laurence Sterne
View AuthorThis is called perseverance in a good cause and obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Sterne
View AuthorScience can be learned by heart, but wisdom cannot.
E. W. Stevens
View AuthorThe most essential condition to be optimistic is to have absolute confidence in oneself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
View AuthorWe are in such a hurry to do, write, and make our voice heard in the silence of eternity, that we forget the only truly important thing: to live.
Robert Louis Stevenson
View AuthorTo be what we are and to become what we are capable of being is the only purpose of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
View AuthorIt is better to live and die at once than to languish every day in our room under the pretext of preserving ourselves.