DOS

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Although death is terrifying, knowing that you are living to eternity without ever being able to die is even more terrifying.

Anyone who has never owned a dog can’t know what loving and being loved mean.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men.

Being able to endure loneliness and enjoy it is a great gift.

Don't ignore the love you do have in your life by focusing on the love you don't.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Duty is what one expects from others.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everything is dangerous. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.

Fall (down) seven times, Stand up eight.

God created man and, seeing he was not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion so that he would feel his solitude more.

I like talking. A lot of times I talk to myself, just to hear myself talking. Sometimes I am so clever that even I don’t understand what I said. 

I think, therefore I am / exist.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

In this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.

If you want to learn, then teach.

It’s amazing that one fortune-teller doesn’t laugh at the sight of another.

It is easier to fight for your beliefs than live up to them.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

It is typical / the mark  of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Know thyself. Plato

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

Living without philosophising is literally having your eyes closed without ever trying to open them.

Love makes us crazy, marriage cuckolds and patriotism cruel imbeciles.

Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.

Not everyone can boast of having a friend.

One is not what one is for that which one writes, but for that which one has read.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

The most beautiful words are not “I love you”, but “it’s benign”. * [bih-nahyn]

The real discovery from a voyage consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. 

There's one thing worse than being alone: wishing you were.

Tired of having to endure loneliness day after day, month after month, year after year.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

To fear love is to fear life, (and those who fear life are already three parts dead)

Tolerance consists in respecting other people’s opinions.

Thinking is the hardest work there is.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

What makes men sociable is their inability / incapacity to bear / endure solitude, and therefore / thus themselves.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. 

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

Young people nowdays assume that money is everything, and when the get older they know it.