Quotes and thoughts

Happiness comes from moderation.
Goethe


I don't know of a better badge for a sovereign mind than the tenacy of purpose that inavoidably makes him follow his path until its end.
Emerson


It is more convenient to be interesting than precise, as the public forgives it all but boredom.
Voltaire


Man is the builder of his own misery; the pleasures he usually longs for are not worth the fourth part of the cost of their eagerness to reach them.
Tiller


Don't ask for tasks according to your strengths. Ask for strengths according to your tasks.
Brooks


Shyness is composed of the wish of being liked and the fear of not achieving it.
Beauchene


To domesticate is not to tame nor dominate, it is to build bonds.
Anonymous


Wealth is everything you have and can't be bought with money.
Anonymous


Who listens to his small inner-voice will become a small man; who listens to his big inner-voice will become a big man.
Mencio


Seeking pain you find pleasure; seeking pleasure, you find pain.
Catalina de Siena


What is vulgarity? The dictatorship of selfishness, the slavery towards routine and the indiference with regard to great things.
Giner


What is important is not to listen but to find out what the other thinks.
Donoso Cortés


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