"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on success   

"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."

Brodsky, Joseph on friends and friendship   

"I quote others in order to better express myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on quotations
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"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on poverty and the poor
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"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

Brodsky, Joseph on consciousness
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on age and aging
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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on defeat
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"No wind favors him who has no destined port."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on goals
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"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on goals
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on lies and lying
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"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on marriage
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"Philosophy is doubt."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on philosophers and philosophy   

"I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on averages   

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."

Luce, Clare Boothe on courage   

"A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery."

Luce, Clare Boothe on home   

"You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother."

Luce, Clare Boothe on divorce   

"Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take."

Billings, Josh on advice
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"Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies."

Billings, Josh on experience
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"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ideas
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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

London, Jack on charity
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"Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel."

Dane, Frank on business
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"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."

Dane, Frank on books - reading   

"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins."

Dane, Frank on winners and winning   

"If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea."

Sutton, Percy on ideas
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"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."

Woollcott, Alexander on pleasure   

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."

Woollcott, Alexander on present
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"Eating is touch carried to the bitter end."

Butler, Samuel on food and eating   

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"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

Franklin, Benjamin on diligence
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."

Franklin, Benjamin on gratitude
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"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

Eliot, T. S. on success
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"The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning."

Eliot, T. S. on youth
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"Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it."

Eliot, T. S. on past
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

Cicero, Marcus T. on silence
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"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."

Cicero, Marcus T. on philosophers and philosophy
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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