“The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Soon those three udders of modern nations, monopolies, bill discounting, and fraudulent speculation, were swollen with the milk of wealth.”

― Anatole France, Penguin Island

“the fact that the intellect is not the most subtle, powerful and appropriate instrument for grasping the truth is only one more reason in favour of starting with the intellect rather than with the intuitions of the unconscious or with...”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

“For that edifice rested on the single column of her fidelity, and loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on to the stage he was fully born.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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