Brain Quotes

Anais Nin (French Philosopher)

1. A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I
walked.
2. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. .
3. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it
took to blossom.
4. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man
holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
5. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no
solutions.
6. Dreams are necessary to life.
7. Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this
interdependence produces the highest form of living.
8. Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
9. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by
this meeting that a new world is born.
10. Good things happen to those who hustle.
11. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than
to create it herself.
12. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
13. I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
14. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I
cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
15. I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous
demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe
me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
16. If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I
have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come
my way.
17. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing,
then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
18. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to
see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning
in it.
19. It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
20. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where
people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
21. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from
defeat to defeat.
22. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
23. Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
24. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its
source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies
of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
25. My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
26. Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be
brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
 27. People living deeply have no fear of death.
28. The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison
with it, that was the miracle.
29. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a
child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
30. The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
31. The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
32. The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is
always more mystery.
33. The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
34. There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I
try to do.
35. There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by
instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by
successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
36. There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk
it took to blossom.
37. There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our
life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each
person.
38. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a
new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
39. Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe
only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
40. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
41. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
42. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
43. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become
automatons. We cease to grow.
44. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

William Jennings Bryan

1. All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American
civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
2. Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight
of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
3. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by
magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the
country.
4. Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it
is a thing to be achieved.
5. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited
for, it is a thing to be achieved.
6. Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of
incubation have been entirely completed.
7. Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
8. Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens
the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
9. I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
 10. If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless
deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to
another?
11. If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
12. If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
13. My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the
people can do for me.
14. Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority
which is right will one day be the majority.
15. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
16. None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have
nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
17. One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
18. The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is
stronger than all the hosts of error.
19. The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to
omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining
the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and
enjoyment.
20. The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their
children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or
agnostics, or atheists.
21. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of
successful experiences behind you.
22. There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not
discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
23. There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than
there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
24. This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in
the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in
defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Viktor E. Frankl
1. A human being is a deciding being.
2. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our
response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
3. Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
4. Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own
life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
5. Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
6. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a
concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his
life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement
it.
7. Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human
freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own
way.
8. Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
9. For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour.
What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific
meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
 10. I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on
the west coast.
11. Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
12. Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first
time.
13. The last of human freedoms - the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of
circumstances.
14. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must
recognize that it is he who is asked.
15. What is to give light must endure burning.
16. When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change
ourselves.

Horace
1. A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
2. A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a
change in fortune.
3. A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
4. A picture is a poem without words.
5. A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver
between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
6. A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is
with those whose fortune does not suit them.
7. A word once uttered can never be recalled.
8. A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
9. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have
lain dormant.
10. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
11. Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have
to score.
12. Anger is a brief madness.
13. Anger is a short madness.
14. Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but
they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
15. Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
16. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings
forth.
17. Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse,
and what they are capable of bearing.
18. Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
19. Don't think, just do.
20. Every old poem is sacred.
21. Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and
down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path
of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
22. Fidelity is the sister of justice.
23. Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
24. Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
25. Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper
deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse
following a renaissance.
26. He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
27. He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
28. He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
29. He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
30. He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
31. He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out
before he crosses.
32. He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
33. I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
34. I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them
both well.
35. I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
36. I teach that all men are mad.
37. If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him
up, if too small it pinches him.
38. If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
39. If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
40. In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
41. In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
42. It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
43. It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live
bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
44. It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say;
when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes
truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
45. It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
46. It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
47. It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
48. It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
49. It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
50. It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
51. Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
52. Labor diligently to increase your property.
53. Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
54. Leave the rest to the gods.
55. Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
56. Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
57. Life is largely a matter of expectation.
58. Make a good use of the present.
59. Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
60. Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
61. Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
62. No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
63. No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
64. Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
65. O imitators, you slavish herd!
66. Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
67. One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced
by different delusions.
68. Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
69. Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
70. Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
71. Poets wish to profit or to please.
72. Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants
you, count as gain.
73. Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
74. Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and
the careless the busy and industrious.
75. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
76. Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness
through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
77. Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
78. Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of
instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
79. The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
80. The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
81. The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the
righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
82. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
83. The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And
the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
84. The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
85. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation
prompted them to do.
86. The pen is the tongue of the mind.
87. The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter
and the poet.
88. This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when
they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
89. Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now
shining in splendor.
90. To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those
who have, fear it.
91. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
92. Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
93. We are free to yield to truth.
94. We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
95. We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
96. We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his
life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
97. What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is
presented to the trustworthy eye.
98. Whatever advice you give, be short.
99. When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
100. While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
101. Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
102. Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
 103. Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the
envy of
a palace.
104. Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something
affects
your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
105. Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
106. Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
107. Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
108. You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
109. You must avoid sloth that wicked siren.
110. You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every
man. A contented mind confers it on all.
111. Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

Betty Smith
1. I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse
with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
2. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then
your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1. A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his
children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
2. A woman's health is her capital.
3. All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she
is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
4. Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
5. Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the
best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule
nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
6. Friendships are discovered rather than made.
7. Human nature is above all things lazy.
8. I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
9. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its
place.
10. In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that
God makes are his gift to all alike.
11. It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people
have always done.
12. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
13. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
14. No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
15. One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants
to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and
very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
16. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
17. So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up
to the beauty of old women?
 18. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
19. The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
20. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
21. To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of
everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
22. To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon
things respectably.
23. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though
you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and
time that the tide will turn.
24. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual
ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
25. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities
decline.

Aristotle
1. A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
2. A friend to all is a friend to none.
3. great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
4. A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without
the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring
without the iron or gold.
5. A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain
magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
6. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
7. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less
apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.
On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods
on his side.
8. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions,
habit, reason, passion, desire.
9. All men by nature desire knowledge.
10. All men by nature desire to know.
11. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
12. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
13. Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the
right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is
not within everybody's power and is not easy.
14. Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right
time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power
and that is not easy.
15. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the
worst.
16. Bad men are full of repentance.
17. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
18. Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
19. Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased
means permit.
20. Change in all things is sweet.
21. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
22. Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
23. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the
others.
24. Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all
respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
25. Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
26. Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make
for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
27. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
28. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
29. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
30. Education is the best provision for old age.
31. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
32. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at
some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all
things aim.
33. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we
have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
34. Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this
being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would
determine it.
35. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
36. For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things
which are by nature most evident of all.
37. For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a
short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
38. For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth
first.
39. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
40. Friendship is essentially a partnership.
41. Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
42. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
43. He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to
apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
44. He who hath many friends hath none.
45. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
46. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for
himself, must be either a beast or a god.
47. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its
statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
48. Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
49. Hope is a waking dream.
50. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
51. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for
the hardest victory is over self.
52. I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do
only from fear of the law.
53. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they
will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
54. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
55. In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of
them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
56. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
57. In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing
persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of
the speech.
58. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
59. In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they
keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in
the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
60. Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
61. It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
62. It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the
special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
63. It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
64. It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree,
but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed
something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
65. It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their
appearance in the world.
66. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
67. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
68. Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and
belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the
other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
69. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
70. Man is by nature a political animal.
71. Man is naturally a political animal.
72. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
73. Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
74. Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard
to their mode of life.
75. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
76. Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts,
temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
77. Most people would rather give than get affection.
78. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are
their own.
79. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
80. Nature does nothing in vain.
81. Nature does nothing uselessly.
82. No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
83. No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
84. No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
85. No one loves the man whom he fears.
86. No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in
the world.
87. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
88. Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these
wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
 89. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
90. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
91. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
92. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
93. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal,
and history only the particular.
94. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond
political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
95. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
96. Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
97. Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
98. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not
through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
99. Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
100. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward
significance.
101. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
102. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of
natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
103. The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
104. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
105. The end of labor is to gain leisure.
106. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
107. The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and
to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own
foulness.
108. The gods too are fond of a joke.
109. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
110. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of
circumstances.
111. The law is reason, free from passion.
112. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
113. The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature,
indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product
of habit.
114. The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and
outnumbers both of the other classes.
115. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
116. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
117. The secret to humor is surprise.
118. The soul never thinks without a picture.
119. The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
120. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather
than upon mere survival.
121. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
122. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
123. The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for
which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that
under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
124. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
125. The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
126. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
127. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
128. Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
129. This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that
they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
130. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
131. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for
these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
132. Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men
the least inclined to do so.
133. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy
last.
134. To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide
braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
135. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
136. We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions,
brave by performing brave action.
137. We make war that we may live in peace.
138. We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and
the figure impressed on it are one.
139. We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and
also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
140. Well begun is half done.
141. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
142. What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
143. What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow
citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
144. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
145. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
146. Wit is educated insolence.
147. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
148. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the
mind next to honor.
149. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Warren Buffett
1. A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
2. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
3. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
4. I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides,
so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of
the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
5. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
6. I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
7. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they
could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
8. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
9. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
10. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
11. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that,
you'll do things differently.
12. It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is
better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
13. It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a
wonderful price.
14. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
15. Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather
than participate in it.
16. Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they
were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
17. Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10
years.
18. Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
19. Our favorite holding period is forever.
20. Our favourite holding period is forever.
21. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
22. Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
23. Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
24. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
25. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels
is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
26. The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but
simple behavior is more effective.
27. The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
28. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
29. The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.
30. The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the
press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
31. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things
difficult.
32. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
33. Value is what you get.
34. We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like
calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
35. We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
36. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when
others are fearful.
37. When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a
reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
38. Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much
of a good thing can be wonderful".
39. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what
they are doing.
40. You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've
had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week,
I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
41. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many
things wrong.
42. Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get
the business.
Chanakya
1. A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him
in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
2. A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences
of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
3. A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
4. A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are
screwed first.
5. As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal
son destroy a whole family.
6. As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your
soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
7. As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
8. Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I
doing it, what the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think
deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
9. Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
10. Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that
straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
11. Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being
determined to carry it into execution.
12. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats
the beauty and the youth.
13. Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
14. God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
15. He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root
of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
16. He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in
our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
17. If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the
value of other ornamentation?
18. It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but
a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
19. Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships
will never give you any happiness.
20. O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the
sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
21. Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't
abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
22. One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of
others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
23. Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by
one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
24. Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend
in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
25. The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
26. The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun
shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
 27. The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a
person spreads in all direction.
28. The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity
is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
29. The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its
rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
30. The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man
intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
31. The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by
other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
32. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with
due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
33. The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
34. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to
contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
35. There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a
scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
36. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship
without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
37. Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By
the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best
friends.
38. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future;
men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
39. Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and
birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.

Abraham Lincoln
1. A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
2. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
3. A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
4. All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
5. All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would
grow in thought and mind.
6. Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary
to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he
deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
7. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one
thing.
8. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other.
9. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
10. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it
will be because we destroyed ourselves.
11. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
12. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and
shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a
most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the
world.
13. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of
democracy.
14. As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
15. Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
16. Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
17. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
18. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
19. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
20. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.
21. Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so
many of them.
22. Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle
and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
23. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a
peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be
business enough.
24. Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the
only safeguard of our liberties.
25. Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
26. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for
one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by
rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
27. Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
28. Everybody likes a compliment.
29. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
30. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
31. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
32. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
33. He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible
to make.
34. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
35. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't
make it a leg.
36. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet
any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
37. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am
bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and
stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
38. I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
39. I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
40. I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost
every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be
down inside of me.
41. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
42. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
43. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until
the end.
44. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his
grandson will be.
45. I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
46. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
47. I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to
wreck the country's cause.
48. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his
place will be proud of him.
49. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
50. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to
me all my life.
51. I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
52. I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and
planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
53. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me
again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
54. I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
55. I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
56. If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
57. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as
well be closed for any other business.
58. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
59. If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their
respect and esteem.
60. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
61. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
62. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better
judge what to do, and how to do it.
63. If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make
it a leg.
64. If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
65. Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
66. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be,
and one must be wrong.
67. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
68. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
69. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove
all doubt.
70. Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
71. Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could
never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and
deserves much the higher consideration.
72. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently
and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from
violence when built.
73. Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our
duty as we understand it.
74. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
75. Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
76. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
77. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best
hope of earth.
78. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your
failure.
79. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him
power.
80. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
81. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
82. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
83. No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
84. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all
men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of
despotism around your own doors.
85. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
86. Public opinion in this country is everything.
87. Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing
can succeed.
88. Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the
dollar.
89. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's
side, for God is always right.
90. Some day I shall be President.
91. Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
92. Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him
when he goes wrong.
93. Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the
infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
94. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
95. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
96. The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our
separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for
future use.
97. The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
98. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
99. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
100. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
101. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion
is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we
must think anew and act anew.
102. The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a
devout person.
103. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
104. The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own
deliberate decisions.
105. The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
106. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of
government in the next.
107. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the
support of a cause we believe to be just.
108. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the
shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer
of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
109. The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a
book I ain't read.
110. The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips
closed.
111. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never
suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
112. There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is
the daughter of Time."
113. There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see
the true, This seeing is not the true one.
114. These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
115. These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as
in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
116. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
117. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever
they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional
right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
118. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
119. To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are
necessary.
120. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
121. To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
122. Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
123. We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
124. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to
overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
125. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
126. Whatever you are, be a good one.
127. When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time
thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he
is going to say.
128. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
129. When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
130. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's
best to let him run.
131. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried
on him personally.
132. With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God
gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the
nation's wounds.
133. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
134. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
135. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
136. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and
independence.
137. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
138. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should
do for themselves.
139. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.