Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorEven if I could make myself fearsome, I would prefer to make myself kind.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorEvery honorable person would rather lose honor than lose conscience.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorOf all the benefits that virtue brings us, one of the greatest is the contempt for death.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorHe who does not live in some way for others, also does not live for himself.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
View AuthorIt is not enough for a wife to be faithful, it is necessary for her husband, her friends, and her neighbors to believe in her fidelity.
José Saramago
View AuthorThe only ones interested in changing the world are the pessimists, because the optimists are delighted with what is.
Robert Louis Stevenson
View AuthorI don't ask for wealth, or hopes, or love, or a friend who understands me; all I ask for is the sky above me and a path at my feet.
Tacitus
View AuthorPurchased loyalty is always suspicious and, generally, short-lived.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
View AuthorI cannot wish for the good ones to win, as I do not know who they are.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorI want to live and die in the army of the humble, joining my prayers to theirs, with the holy freedom of the obedient.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorDon't give someone what they ask for, but rather what you understand they need; and then endure the ingratitude.
Gustave Flaubert
View AuthorThe best of life is spent saying 'it's too soon,' and then it's 'too late'.