Yamamoto Tsunetomo (山本 常朝) (June 11th, 1659 – November 30th, 1719), was a samurai of the Saga Domain, in Hizen Province, under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige. He became a Zen Buddhist priest and told his experiences, wisdom, memories, and theories to the samurai Tashiro Tsuramoto, who put them together in the book Hagakure.

Below we list words of wisdom from Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

“Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.”

“A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.”

“Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.”

“It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material possessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.”

“By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done”

“As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.”

“It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.”

“The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.”

“The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.”

“Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.”

“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.”

“In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.”

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.”

“To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.”

“Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.”

“It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that. At first putting forth great effort to be sure that you have grasped the basics, then practicing so that they may come to fruition is something that will never stop for your whole lifetime. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, “This is not enough.””

“One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.”

“There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.”

“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.”

“Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.”

“Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.”

“This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one’s heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.”

“In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for dragons was brought to the attention of the dragon god, and one day a real dragon appeared before his window. It is said that he died of fright. He was probably a man who always spoke big words but acted differently when facing the real thing.”

“Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.”

“It is said that what is called “the spirit of an age” is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world’s coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today’s world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”

“Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead”

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Ovid (circa 43 BC), was a Roman poet whose lyrical verses have transcended time, offering profound insights into love, change, and the human spirit. His works like Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, and Tristia offer timeless truths. Ovid’s ability to capture universal experiences makes his words as poignant today as they were in ancient Rome.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Ovid.

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.”

“All things change; nothing perishes.”

“Love is a kind of warfare.”

“Time, the devourer of all things.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“The mind grows narrow in seclusion; it flourishes in company.”

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”

“We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.”

“Fortune and love favor the brave.”

“Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”

“The cause is hidden, but the result is known.”

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”

“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.”

“Art lies in concealing art.”

“To be loved, be lovable.”

“Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”

“The burden which is well borne becomes light.”

“While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.”

“Love yields to business; be busy, and you will be safe.”

“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.”

“What is without periods of rest will not endure.”

“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”

“Envy feeds on the living; it ceases when they are dead.”

“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”

“Every lover is a soldier, and has his camp in Cupid’s service.”

“Judgment of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.”

“Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”

“What is now reason was passion before.”

“The gods behold all things; nothing escapes their notice.”

“Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe.”

“Beauty is a frail good, and time destroys it.”

“Night, the friend of lovers, hides their stolen joys.”

“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”

“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”

“He who can give has many a good neighbor.”

“Who would not be deceived, let him not trust too much.”

“Time glides by, and we age with silent years.”

“Pleasure is sweet, but it is bought with pain.”

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Jacques Derrida (July 15th,1930 – October 9th, 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher and author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays. He significantly influenced philosophy, sociolinguistics, music, literature, architecture, applied linguistics, political theory, law, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and historiography.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Jacques Derrida.

“If things were simple, word would have gotten around.”

“Who ever said that one was born just once?”

“We are all mediators, translators.”

“Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.”

“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”

“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”

“The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifiers.”

“Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.”

“Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other’s gaze that wins out and decides.”

“I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.”

“Even if we’re in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that’s what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him.”

“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”

“I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.”

“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l’avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l’avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.”

“One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.”

“There is nothing outside the text”

“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”

“Learning to live ought to mean learning to die – to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality – without positive outcome, or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.”

“If I only did what I can do, I wouldn’t do anything”

“Within the university… you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It’s perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.”

“The only attitude (the only politics–judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.”

“Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.”

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters,’ without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”

“The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.”

“As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.”

“I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.”

“The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.”

“If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you’ll notice they almost never said ‘I,’ and didn’t speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn’t necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.”

“The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.”

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Hesiod (circa 1200 BC), was an ancient Greek poet whose works are among the earliest surviving examples of Greek literature. He is best known for two major poems: Works and Days, offering practical advice on farming and morality, and Theogony, a cosmological epic detailing the origins of the gods and the universe.

Hesiod’s writings reflect a concern for justice, order, and the human condition.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Hesiod.

“Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.”

“The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.”

“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.”

“Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.”

“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.”

“The gods have placed sweat before virtue.”

“He who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”

“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”

“A day is sometimes a mother, sometimes a stepmother.”

“Wealth should not be seized: God-given wealth is much better.”

“The fool learns by suffering.”

“If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little will become a lot.”

“Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.”

“He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.”

“Moderation is best in all things.”

“The half is greater than the whole when you lack judgment.”

“Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to put down.”

“A man’s best treasure is a thrifty tongue.”

“Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.”

“It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.”

“The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.”

“Fools, they do not know how much more the half is than the whole.”

“There is a noise when justice is being dragged in the way where those who devour bribes and give sentence with crooked judgments take her.”

“Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.”

“Love of gain drives men to madness.”

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

“Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.”

“Hunger is the constant companion of the idle man.”

“Strive for honest gain, for dishonest wealth brings ruin.”

“When you deal with a fool, expect folly.”

“From small beginnings come great things, if tended well.”

“Men’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.”

“Evil war and dread battle destroy both men and cities.”

“Keep your hands from violence and your heart from greed.”

“The gods love the just and hate the unjust.”

“Many times the gods bring things to pass beyond our expectation.”

“Death is the lot of man, but to live well is his choice.”

“Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.”

“The best man is he who relies on himself for all things.”

“Order your work, that your hands may find what they seek.”

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Virgil (October 15, 70 BC – September 21,19 BC), was an ancient Roman poet who composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.

T.S. Eliot, 19th century poet and playwright, said, “What Is a Classic? Whatever the definition we arrive at, it cannot be one which excludes Virgil – we may say confidently that it must be one which will expressly reckon with him.”

Below we list some words of wisdom from Virgil.

“Fate will find a way.”

“All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river…In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.”

“Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.”

“Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.”

“Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven – there is the task, there is the burden.”

“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”

“Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.”

“Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.”

“What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.”

“Each of us bears his own Hell.”

“Every man makes a god of his own desire.”

“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

“Fortune favors the bold.”

“Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.”

“All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”

“Persistent work triumphs.”

“The medicine increases the disease.”

“Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.”

“Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.”

“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.”

“Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.”

“Trust one who has tried.”

“The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.”

“Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.”

“None but himself can be his parallel.”

“We are not all able to do all things.”

“Trust not too much to appearances.”

“Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.”

“Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.”

“It is easy to go down into Hell; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air-there’s the rub.”

”Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.”

“Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.”

“E’en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck’d from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th’ infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark’ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.”

“Fury itself supplies arms.”

“A fault is fostered by concealment.”

“Passion and strife bow down the mind.”

“If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.”

“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”

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Democritus ( 460 – 370 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher from Abdera. He is famous for an atomic theory of the universe. Democritus wrote extensively on many subjects including poetry, military tactics, harmony, and Babylonian theology. His original work didn’t survive, but many second-hand references come from Aristotle, who saw him as an important figure in natural philosophy. He was known as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of his emphasis on the importance of cheerfulness.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Democritus.

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.”

“My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.”

“The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.”

“Life unexamined, is not worth living.”

“The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.”

“We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.”

“The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.”

“It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.”

“The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.”

“Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.”

“Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.”

“I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

“One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.”

“Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.”

“One should practice much sense, not much learning.”

“Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.”

“There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are destroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.”

“It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.”

“The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.”

“All things happen by virtue of necessity.”

“It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.”

“Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.”

“Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.”

“More men have become great through practice than by nature.”

“If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.”

“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”

“Envy creates the beginning of strife.”

“Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.”

“The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.”

“Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.”

“Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.”

“Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.”

“The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.”

“Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.”

“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.”

“We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.”

“You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.”

“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.”

“Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.”

“Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.”

“The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.”

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Dante Alighieri (May 1265 – September 14, 1321), was an Italian philosopher, poet, and writer. He was influential in establishing Italy’s literature and is considered one of the world’s greatest literary legends. He is most known for his portrayals of Heaven and Hell.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Dante Alighieri.

“Astrology, the noblest of sciences.”

“I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.”

“Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow.”

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”

“I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.”

“If you give people light, they will find their own way.”

“Follow your path, and let the people talk.”

“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

“The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love… and, mirror-like… each soul reflects the other.”

“If your world isn’t right, the cause is in you.”

“From a small spark, Great flame has risen.”

“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

“Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.”

“Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.”

“O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.”

“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”

“Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.”

“Nature is the art of God.”

“Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.”

“This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.”

“Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.”

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”

“The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.”

“He is not always at ease who laughs.”

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”

“The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.”

“A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.”

“There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.”

“As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind – Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.”

“In His will, our peace.”

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27th, 1770 – November 14th, 1831) was a German philosopher and an important voice of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy. He wrote about the philosophical side of many contemporary topics, including metaphysics, art, history, politics, and religion.

He is famous for The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Science of Logic, and University of Berlin lectures on subjects from his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”

“To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.”

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history”

“Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.”

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”

“What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.”

“The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.”

“If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.”

“I have the courage to be mistaken.”

“Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.”

“The more certain our knowledge the less we know.”

“Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.”

“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me”

“An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.”

“A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.”

“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”

“Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.”

“Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.”

“Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.”

“Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.”

“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.”

“Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.”

“America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.”

“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”

“Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.”

“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”

“To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.”

“Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”

“History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.”

“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable”

“God is the absolute truth…”

“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself…As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called ‘I’; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.”

“The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one’s own in one’s ideas and thought.”

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François Rabelais (1483 – 1553) was a French writer, Christian humanist, physician, Greek scholar, and satirist. He is known as the first great French prose author.

Below we list some words of wisdom from François Rabelais.

“When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.”

“If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror.”

“Ignorance is the mother of all evils.”

“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.”

“Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.”

“Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.”

“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”

“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”

“I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.”

“I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.”

“I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.”

“In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.”

“I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.”

“How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?”

“In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.”

“If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.”

“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”

“Nature abhors a vacuum.”

“Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them.”

“The dress does not make the monk.”

“He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.”

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one’s own troubles.”

“One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends and it behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.”

“He that has patience may compass anything.”

“According to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.”

“There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.”

“All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.”

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Blaise Pascal (June 19th,1623 – August 19th,1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, writer, philosopher, child prodigy, and inventor of the mechanical calculator. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry at the age of 16. He also heavily influenced the development of modern economics and social science.

Below we list words of wisdom by Blaise Pascal.

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

“Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.”

“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

“Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.”

“Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.”

“One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.”

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”

“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”

“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”

“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”

“It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.”

“Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.”

“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

“Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.”

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

“Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.”

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

“When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.”

“The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.”

“I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.”

“Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.”

“Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.”

“Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.”

“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

“Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.”

“Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!”

“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”

“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.”

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