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100 splendid quotes, a selection of 100 great aphorisms by famous authors, philosophers and artists through the centuries to help everyone create better thoughts and achieve good actions; edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown<\/a>, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

Awareness and stupidity are unfortunately two sides of the same coin, just like life and death, laughter and tears, comedy and tragedy, wealth and poverty, peace and war; but with these coins it is very difficult, if not impossible, to play heads or tails and tempt fate.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Excellence withers without an adversary.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

The contradiction of capitalism is that it creates wealth while increasing poverty.<\/span>
\nKarl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate victims that respect their executioners.<\/span>
\nJean Paul Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

Focus on knowledge, live authentically, challenge limits, and align your soul with truth.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

A snake can change its skin but not its disposition.<\/span>
\nPersian proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Stupidity generally serves both those who do not think much and those who think too much and badly.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.\u201d<\/span>
\nHermann Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

When your education limit your imagination, it is called indoctrination.<\/span>
\nRichard Feynman<\/span><\/p>\n

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.<\/span>
\nHeinrich Heine<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present: each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.<\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

Excellence is achieved through repeated effort, guided by reason and effort.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom.<\/span>
\nMarie von Ebner<\/span><\/p>\n

The quickest way to end a war is to loose it.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoyevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The wise don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

A person hears only what he understand or better what he believe to understand.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Good and ethic power should be the ability to do good for othes, otherwise power in itself is just only stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no greater good than knowledge.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Even a writer of aphorisms, if he does not know the philosophical secret of the right measure, will only contribute to the miserable prolixity of stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The highest for of love is the love of wisdom.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who tell the stories also rule society.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.<\/span>
\nSadi of Shiraz<\/span><\/p>\n

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.<\/span>
\nMarcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

The community should share property and family to create unity.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.<\/span>
\nOtto von Bismarck<\/span><\/p>\n

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.<\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.<\/span>
\nCarl G. Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

It is to difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.<\/span>
\njean Jacques Rousseau<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The body is the prison of the soul.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is silence, and it has no past or future.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

It is frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

In a war of Ego, the loser always wins.<\/span>
\nBuddha<\/span><\/p>\n

Make a habit of two things – to help, or at least, to do no harm.<\/span>
\nHippocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.<\/span>
\nJohn Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is the food of the soul.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.<\/span>
\nLudwig Wittgenstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Ten beggars can sleep on one rug, but two kings feel uncomfortable in one country.<\/span>
\nSaadi<\/span><\/p>\n

An intellectual is a person who has found a thing that is more interesting than sex.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.<\/span>
\nHeinrich Heine<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is not achieved by pursuing pleasure but by embracing purpose.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Let your actions align with your words.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

What I advice you to do is not to be unhappy before the crisis comes.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

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Better a civil or a world war, even a nuclear one, than having to put up with the stupidity of those who govern this planet, the shithole toilet of the universe. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.<\/span>
\nJohn Milton<\/span><\/p>\n

The mind can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.<\/span>
\nRen\u00e9 Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

The purpose of education is to empower individuals to think critically.<\/span>
\nJohn Locke<\/span><\/p>\n

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?<\/span>
\nJohn Stuart Mill<\/span><\/p>\n

Wickedness is paid for in the next world, but stupidity in this one.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never believed that man\u2019s freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.<\/span>
\nJean-Jacques Rousseau<\/span><\/p>\n

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. <\/span>
\nGilles Deleuze<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to be absolutely certain is one of the essential things in rationality.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts that respond to problems.<\/span>
\nGilles Deleuze<\/span><\/p>\n

Chi pensa non crede, chi crede non pensa.<\/span>
\nArthur Shopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.<\/span>
\nVicktor Frankl<\/span><\/p>\n

The essence of evil is its refusal to think.<\/span>
\nHannah Arendt<\/span><\/p>\n

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

True philosophy begins where pleasure ends and discipline begins.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

A corrupt state teaches its youth obedicence, not virtue.<\/span>
\nLucis Annaeus Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

I swear to you, gentlemen, that being too conscious is a disease, a real, absolute disease.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.<\/span>
\nLucius Annaeus Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

I swear to you, gentlemen, that being too conscious is a disease, a real, absolute disease.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. <\/span>
\nBlaise Pascal<\/span><\/p>\n

Once upon a time, watching some American films, we said that our people were coming, today at most we can only say that the idiots are coming.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The common people are always seduced by appearance and success.<\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Macchiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

To accuse others for one’s own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

The superior man always thinks of virtue, the common man thinks of comfort.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Books weigh a lot: and yet, those who feed on them and put them in their bodies, live among the clouds.<\/span>
\nLuigi Pirandello<\/span><\/p>\n

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.<\/span>
\nGabriel Garcia Marquez<\/span><\/p>\n

Often injustice lies in what you aren\u2019t doing, not only in what you are doing.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.<\/span>
\nLeonardo da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

Humanity does not need artificial intelligence if imbecility still dominates deep within its nature.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka<\/span><\/p>\n

All war is a crime against humanity.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.<\/span>
\nMarie von Ebner-Eschenbach<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

By all means marry: if you get a good wife or husband, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad wife or husband, you’ll become a philosopher. <\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

If you wish to be rich, do not add to your money, but subtruct from your desires.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.<\/span>
\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

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