| If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
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| As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. - Albert Schweitzer
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| The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. - Voltaire
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| To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. - Voltaire
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| The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus
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| By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. - Rumi
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| Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness. - Lao Tzu
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| No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. - Sigmund Freud
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| Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. - Arthur Schopenhauer
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| The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. - Ayn Rand
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| Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
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| Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde
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| To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
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| Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi
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| The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. - Niccolo Machiavelli
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| Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. - Pythagoras
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| Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. - Haruki Murakami
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| Let my hands be seen from outside my coffin so that all may see Suleiman the Magnificent, the ruler of this world, even he leaves for the other world empty-handed. - Suleiman the Magnificent
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| To live without hope is to cease to live. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. - Benjamin Disraeli
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| Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR. - Benjamin Disraeli
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| Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself. - Napoleon Bonaparte
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| All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. - Shakespeare
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| A house divided against itself cannot stand. - Abraham Lincoln
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