Quotes and thoughts
Great men are not great at every hour nor in everything.
Frederick the Great
Greatness is like perfumes: those who carry them are who less perceive them.
Christine of Sweden
Men are like wines: time sours the bad ones and ages the good ones.
Cicero
If it is not convenient, do not it; if it is not true, do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
The ordinary man only cares of spending his time; the talented one, of using it.
Schopenhauer
You can know a man's heart from what he does and his wisdom from what he says.
Ali-Ben-Abi-Taleb
Great men are simple and regularly pompous for the same reason cowards show off and the brave ones do not.
Balmes
You cannot have a happy life without being fair, wise and good; and you cannot be fair, wise and good without being happy.
Epicurus
When someone is friend of himself, he's friend of everybody else.
Seneca
Elderly age starts when we wake up without goals and we go to bed without hopes.
Belmont B.
It is parents duty to prepare their children for the way, never the way for the children.
Schiller
Who doesn't get satisfied with some, doesn't get satisfied with anything.
Epicurus
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