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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
― Jack Kerouac

“If you don't want anyone to find out about it then don't do it”
― chinese-proverbs

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place.”
― Diogenes Laërtius

“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.”
― Anaxagoras

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
― C.G. Jung

“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”
― Anaxagoras

“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
― Lao Tse

“Aquél que obtiene una victoria sobre otro hombre es fuerte, pero quien obtiene una victoria sobre sí mismo es poderoso.”
― Lao Tse

“Un camino de mil millas comienza con un primer paso.”
― Lao Tse

“el tao que puede ser expresado no es el verdadero tao.”
― Lao Tse

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
― Epicurus

“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
― Epicurus

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

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

“By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.”
― Democritus

“Democritus and Heraclitus were two philosophers, of whom the first, finding the condition of man vain and ridiculous, never went out in public but with a mocking and laughing face; whereas Heraclitus, having pity and compassion on this same condition of ours, wore a face perpetually sad, and eyes filled with tears.

I prefer the first humor; not because it is pleasanter to laugh than to weep, but because it is more disdainful, and condemns us more than the other; and it seems to me that we can never be despised as much as we deserve. Pity and commiseration are mingled with some esteem for the thing we pity; the things we laugh at we consider worthless. I do not think there is as much unhappiness in us as vanity, nor as much malice as stupidity. We are not so full of evil as of inanity; we are not as wretched as we are worthless.

Thus Diogenes, who pottered about by himself, rolling his tub and turning up his nose at the great Alexander, considering us as flies or bags of wind, was really a sharper and more stinging judge, to my taste, than Timon, who was surnamed the hater of men. For what we hate we take seriously. Timon wished us ill, passionately desired our ruin, shunned association with us as dangerous, as with wicked men depraved by nature. Diogenes esteemed us so little that contact with us could neither disturb him nor affect him, and avoided our company, not through fear of association with us, but through disdain of it; he considered us incapable of doing either good or evil....

Our own peculiar condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”
― Democritus

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Life is nasty, brutish, and short”
― Thomas Hobbes

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi