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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx


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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Pierre Corneille


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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Molière


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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal


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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde


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Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Georges Braque


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We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France


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When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon


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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius


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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert


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Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

Isocrates


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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein


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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

André Malraux


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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift


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Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi


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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

René Descartes


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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire


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The imaginary is what tends to become real.

André Breton


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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci


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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard


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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka


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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust


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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde