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  • #1
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #2
    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #3
    Ivan Turgenev
    “We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
    Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

  • #4
    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    August Strindberg, Miss Julie

  • #5
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #6
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Reading brings us unknown friends”
    Honore de Balzac

  • #7
    Honoré de Balzac
    “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

  • #8
    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #9
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #10
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #11
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “To love and win is the best thing.
    To love and lose, the next best.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #12
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

  • #13
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • #14
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain



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