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100 famous quotes and aphorisms, a great selection of memorable immortal quotes from authors of all times, edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown<\/a>, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese people visit this blog very often, but I earn neither a cent from China. Call it under-consumption core, call it frugality, call it \u201cproudly stingy\u201d, but you could at least offer me a coffee<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Time is very slow for those who wait; very fast for those who are scared; very long for those who lament; very short for those who celebrate; but for those who love, time is eternal.<\/span>
\nWilliam\u00a0Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.<\/span>
\nMichel de Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.<\/span>
\nSimone de Beauvoir<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the most intelligent of the animals, and the most silly.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.<\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Macchiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to change the world, take a pen and write.<\/span><\/span>
\nMartin Luther<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

History teaches, but has no pupils.<\/span>
\nAntonio Gramsci<\/span><\/p>\n

No artist tolerates reality.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feeling?<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

Anything that costs your peace is too expensive.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.<\/span>
\nT. S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.<\/span>
\nAlexander the Great<\/span><\/p>\n

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.<\/span>
\nJohn Locke<\/span><\/p>\n

The aim of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the bottle.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all leaves of one tree. We are all waves of one sea.<\/span>
\nThich Nhat Hanh<\/span><\/p>\n

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.<\/span>
\nJane Austen<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.<\/span>
\nSolon<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning never exhausts the mind.<\/span>
\nLeonardo da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t waste your time to fight with egos and small minds.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.<\/span>
\nAleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/span><\/p>\n

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflections.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nowadays in the world journalists sell themselves better than newspapers.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.<\/span>
\nLeonardo da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor… If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.<\/span>
\nEdmund Burke<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.<\/span>
\nAgatha Christie<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t be overheard complaining; not even to yourself.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.<\/span>
\nStephen Hawking<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.<\/span>
\nKarl Popper<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know, except pain.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest mind are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.<\/span>
\nRene Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.<\/span>
\nDavid Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmily under your belt, that’s real power.<\/span>
\nClint Eastwood<\/span><\/p>\n

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishment.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.<\/span>
\nJean de La Bruy\u00e8re<\/span><\/p>\n

Beautiful faces are everywhere but beautiful minds are hard to find.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.<\/span>
\nKurt Cobain<\/span><\/p>\n

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.<\/span>
\nHenrik Ibsen<\/span><\/p>\n

A friend to all is a friend to none.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

It takes two years to learn to speak and fifty to learn to be silent.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

Our life is what our thoughts make it. <\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.<\/span>
\nRobert Frost<\/span><\/p>\n

One beautiful heart is better than thousand beautiful faces.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.<\/span>
\nFriedrich August von Hayek<\/span><\/p>\n

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.<\/span>
\nMary Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

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A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.<\/span>
\nDemocritus<\/span><\/p>\n

You will never go ahead by blaming your problems on other people.<\/span>
\nWillie Nelson<\/span><\/p>\n

A library is a hospital for the mind.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The reward of suffering is experience.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

There can be no positive result through negative attitude. Think positive. Live positive.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Pay attention when you compare yourself to others, in fact no one can act your role better or worse than you.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Honesty without kindness is brutality, and kindness without honesty is manipulation.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Not all of the past passes; something inside us is always present.<\/span>
\nGiovanni Soriano<\/span><\/p>\n

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.<\/span>
\nJohan Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.<\/span>
\nBaruch Spinoza<\/span><\/p>\n

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

No one stays with you permanently, so learn to survive alone.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

I am close to those who do not appreciate me, and to those who do not consider me in the most appropriate way, I am in fact aware that human stupidity is an ugly beast, and therefore deserves all my understanding.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.<\/span>
\nCarl Gustav Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

Easy is to judge the mistakes of others. Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.<\/span>
\nClint Eastwood<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves.<\/span>
\nGalileo Galilei<\/span><\/p>\n

A strong man stants up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others.<\/span>
\nSam Elliott<\/span><\/p>\n

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

The highest degree of a medicine is love.<\/span>
\nParacelsus<\/span><\/p>\n

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.<\/span>
\nPlautus<\/span><\/p>\n

Men are not only together when they are with each other, even the distant and the dead live with us.<\/span>
\nLudwig van Beethoven<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.<\/span>
\nMarcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man doesn’t say every single thing he thinks, but thinks every single thing he says.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t judge each day for the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.<\/span>
\nRobert L. Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, worst days give you lessons, and best days give you memories.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The Russians, with their president Putrid, have always considered the Ukrainians as brothers; perhaps this is why, to testify the stupidity of the human race, and in this case the imbecility of the ethnic groups of those territories, they are massacring each other!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.<\/span>
\nHarper Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t solve problems unless you face them.<\/span>
\nBob Mrley<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to be silent than to dispute with the ignorant.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.<\/span>
\nJimi Hendrix<\/span><\/p>\n

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