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  • #1
    Homer
    “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
    Homer, The Odyssey

  • #2
    Homer
    “The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
    Homer

  • #3
    Homer
    “For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
    Homer, The Odyssey

  • #4
    Homer
    “Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”
    Homer

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #6
    Francesco Petrarca
    “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
    Francesco Petrarca

  • #7
    René Descartes
    “Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
    René Descartes

  • #8
    René Descartes
    “Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
    René Descartes

  • #9
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    Plato

  • #10
    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    Plato

  • #11
    Plato
    “He was a wise man who invented God.”
    Plato

  • #12
    Plato
    “All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”
    Plato

  • #13
    Plato
    “No human thing is of serious importance.”
    Plato

  • #14
    Plato
    “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
    Plato, The Symposium

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Marco Polo
    “I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”
    Marco Polo

  • #17
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #18
    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #19
    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    Horace Walpole

  • #20
    Plutarch
    “I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
    Plutarch

  • #21
    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    Voltaire

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #23
    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    Voltaire

  • #24
    Voltaire
    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
    Voltaire

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
    Stephen King

  • #28
    Elbert Hubbard
    “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #29
    Eoin Colfer
    “I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
    Albert Einstein



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