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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

“What is honour, my dear, when you have nothing to eat?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Confessions

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream's content.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Vanity of Existence

“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.”
― Thomas Fuller

“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.”
― Thomas Fuller

“If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.”
― Thomas Fuller

“Be the business never so painful you may have done it for money”
― thomas fuller

“Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear”
― Thomas Fuller

“If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole.”
― Thomas Fuller

“All things are difficult before they are easy”
― Thomas Fuller

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
― William James, The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
― William James

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.”
― William James

“Paranın mutluluk getirmediğine inananlar nerede alışveriş yapacağını bilemeyenlerdir.”
― Engin Geçtan, Hayat

“It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.”
― Julian Huxley

“Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.”
― Julian Huxley, Religion Without Revelation

“The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust