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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. - Immanuel Kant
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Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. - Arthur Schopenhauer
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An error becomes an error when born as truth. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance. - Nicolas de Chamfort
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. - Albert Camus
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. - Jean de La Bruyere
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Character is what nature has engraved in us; can we then efface it? - Voltaire
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Wit is a dangerous weapon even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. - Michel de Montaigne
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He is truly well-bred who knows when to value and when to despise those national peculiarities, which are regarded by some with so much observance; a traveller of taste at once perceives that the wise are polite all the world over, but that fools are polite only at home. - Francis Bacon
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor? - William Makepeace Thackeray
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman`s greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn`t want her. - Helen Rowland
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Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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A female friend, amiable, clever and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. - Benjamin Disraeli
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You live only once, but if you do it right, once is enough. - Mae West
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The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe. - Dorothy Parker
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Never express yourself more clearly than you think. - Niels Bohr
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. - Joseph Joubert
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. - Abraham Lincoln
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. - Victor Hugo
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I do not believe in the immortality of the individual and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority. - Albert Einstein
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford
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Childhood is the sleep of reason. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Women are much more alike than men; they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. - Philip Chesterfield