Quotes from famous people
The collection includes quotes from famous people:
To make a child smart and reasonable, make him strong and healthy: let him work, act, run, scream, let him be in constant motion! Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Being only begins to be when it is threatened with non-existence. FM Dostoevsky
A man is sometimes more generous when he has little money than when he has a lot of it; maybe to prevent anyone from thinking that he doesn’t have them at all. Benjamin Franklin
Books have a special charm; books give us pleasure: they talk to us, give us good advice, they become living friends for us. Francesco Petrarca
To respect every person as ourselves, and to treat him as we wish to be treated—there is nothing higher than this. Confucius
The meaning of human existence is based on the principle of irreversibility. In Frankl
Human happiness is somewhere between freedom and discipline. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Belief in immortality is not only a comforting belief that makes life easier, it is also a terrible, terrible belief that aggravates life with immeasurable responsibility. N. A. Berdyaev
Happiness and Beauty are by-products. George Bernard Shaw
I won't die at all. Horace
Try to add lasting qualities to beauty. Aesop
Everything in the world grows, blooms and returns to its root. Lao Tzu
The surest way to double your money is to fold it in half and stick it in your wallet Frank Hubbard
We are all human beings - complete losers. After all, we will all die someday. Fowles
With money, poverty is easier to bear. Alphonse Allais
Everything can be experienced absolutely in this world, everything except death. Wilde
The only real devils in our vast world are those that are in our hearts. It’s worth fighting them every moment of your life. Mahatma Gandhi
All your life you try to become God, and then you die. Ch Palahniuk
Nature, having created people as they are, gave them great consolation from many evils, endowing them with family and homeland. Hugo Foscolo
Folly and wisdom are caught just as easily as contagious diseases. Therefore, choose your comrades. William Shakespeare
Nature is an ever-changing cloud; never remaining the same, she always remains herself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money must be managed, not served. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (younger)
Understand the living language of nature - And you will say: the world is beautiful! Ivan Savvich Nikitin
Money, if you know how to use it, is a slave; if you don’t know how to use it, it is a master. Publilius Syrus
Experience increases our wisdom, but does not decrease our stupidity. Henry Wheeler Shaw
Love requires reasonable content, like oil to support the fire of Vissarion. Grigorievich Belinsky
There is no entertainment cheaper than reading books and no pleasure that lasts longer. Marie Montague
The only completely safe life is death. I am Krotov
Excessive claims are the source of our sorrows, and we receive happiness in life only when it dries up. Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the world were laid at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would reject them all. Francois Fenelon
Don’t beg for love, loving hopelessly, don’t wander under the window of an unfaithful woman, grieving Like beggar dervishes, be independent - maybe then they’ll love you. Omar Khayyam
I finally learned what separates a man from an animal: money troubles. Jules Renard
If a person takes care of his own health, then it is difficult to find a doctor who would know better what is beneficial for his health than himself. Socrates
It is impossible to hide love, money and worries: love - because it creates with the eyes, money - because it is reflected in the luxury of the one who has it, and worries - because they are written on the person’s forehead. Lope de Vega
Life is a desert, through it we wander naked Mortal, full of pride, you are simply ridiculous! You find a reason for every step, yet it has long been predetermined in heaven. Omar Khayyam
Love is the most powerful of all passions, because it simultaneously takes possession of the head, heart and body. Voltaire
Life is a transition from one form to another. The life of this world is the material for a new form. L Tolstoy
Beauty is an open letter of recommendation that wins the heart in advance. Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is like a mirror into which we look in order to recognize ourselves - what is reflected in it. Arthur Schopenhauer
When we talk about love, it must be understood as the desire for beauty, for this is the definition of love for all philosophers. Marsilio Ficino
Everyone's life is busy with tomorrow. People do not live, but are going to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (younger)
How can we know what death is when we do not yet know what life is? Confucius
It’s worth living your life in this way, so that later in old age you won’t be offended by the years spent uselessly. Maksim Gorky
Each person individually is mortal, but in their totality people are eternal. Apuleius
Eat little at lunch, and even less at dinner, because the health of the whole body is forged in the forge of our stomach. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Sometimes you stand over an abyss, like in front of a ramp, and you think that it’s just the audience that has fallen through somewhere. S Lec
A healthy person is the most precious product of nature. Thomas Carlyle
Health and fun fertilize each other. Joseph Addison
Health is more valuable than gold. William Shakespeare
Health so outweighs all other blessings of life that a truly healthy beggar is happier than a sick king. Arthur Schopenhauer
Health and beauty are inseparable. Lope de Vega
In one minute of love you learn more about a person than in a month of observation. Romain Rolland
Each of us is a fool for at least five minutes a day; wisdom is not to exceed the limit. Elbert Hubbard
It is worth living only in such a way as to make immeasurable demands on life. Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
As someone once told me, robbers demand your purse or your life, but women demand both. Samuel Butler
Life is not so short that there is not enough time for politeness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book is a teacher without payment or gratitude. Every moment it gives you revelations of wisdom. It is an interlocutor with a brain covered with skin, speaking silently about secret affairs. Nizamaddin Mir Alisher Navoi
Life is short, but boredom makes it longer. Jules Renard
Beauty is like a precious stone: the simpler it is, the more precious it is. Francis Bacon
Life is a series of choices. Nostradamus
Anyone who can do without love in old age did not love in his youth, for years are no obstacle to love. Jean Paul
Life is a severe test, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Misner
Love for the Motherland begins with family. Francis Bacon
Get married, no matter what. If you get a good wife, you will be an exception, and if you get a bad wife, you will become a philosopher. Socrates
Wise is not the one who knows a lot, but the one whose knowledge is useful. Aeschylus
If you want to live, you also want to die; or you don’t understand what life is. P Valerie
True beauty is not the kind that you admire with pleasure, but the kind that is as difficult to look at as the sun. Etienne Rey
If you want life to smile at you, give it your good mood first. Benedict Spinoza
Don’t waste a busy person’s time with stories about how smart your children are; he wants to have time to tell you how smart his children are. Edgar Howe
If marriage were not the basis of the family, then it would not be the subject of legislation, like, for example, friendship. Karl Marx
There is no faster way to mastering knowledge than sincere love for a wise teacher. Xun Tzu
Virtue is nothing more than inner beauty, and beauty is nothing more than outer virtue. Francis Bacon
Never give advice to someone who only asks you for money. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
For everyone around us we create only rules, but for ourselves we create only exceptions. Sh Lemel
Believe me, happiness is only where they love us, where they believe us. M. Yu. Lermontov
Money does not correct the injustices of nature, but deepens them. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev
The wisdom of nature is amazing, which, with such endless diversity, managed to equalize everyone! Erasmus of Rotterdam
They say that misfortune is a good school; maybe But happiness is the best university. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Nature searches us when leaving, as when entering. You cannot take out more than you brought. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (younger)
It is stupid to die out of fear of death. Seneca
Separation is for love what the wind is for fire: it extinguishes the weak, and fans the great. Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
For everything there is a time, and a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die. Ecclesiastes
Parents are most reluctant to forgive their children the flaws that they themselves instilled in them. Maria-Ebner Eschenbach
Love transforms everything and makes the foolish wise. Love transforms everything: love gives eloquence to the silent, love can turn old men into youths. Love breaks strength, but it also teaches the weak to be strong; love can also breathe courage into the timid. Erasmus of Rotterdam
Where does a family begin? Since a young man falls in love with a girl, another way has not yet been invented. Winston Churchill
Every single one of them wants to go to heaven! But no one wants to die. Elvin
Family will always be the basis of society. Balzac
Eternal recurrence presupposes reconciliation with suffering. And Camus
Happiness is not an easy thing: it is difficult to find within yourself and it is not easy to find outside of yourself. Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort
A sure way to judge a person's character and intelligence is by his choice of books and friends. Helvetius
Happiness itself is a turbulent matter. Publilius Syrus
There are two opposite principles in human nature: pride, which attracts us to ourselves, and virtue, which pushes us towards others. If one of these springs were broken, a person would be angry to the point of rage or generous to the point of madness. Denis Diderot
He who studies without thinking will fall into error. He who thinks without wanting to learn will find himself in difficulty. Confucius
In love, one always kisses, and the other only turns his cheek. George Bernard Shaw
In life, it's about living, not about some outcome of it. And Goethe
Reading good books is a conversation with the best people of past times, and, moreover, such a conversation when they tell us only their best thoughts. Rene Descartes
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Aphorisms of celebrities
Robert Heinlein (1907–1988) - American writer, master of science fiction.
Live and learn. Or you won't live long.
It may be better to be a living jackal than a dead lion, but being a living lion is even better. And as a rule, it’s easier.
Never appeal to the “better side” of a person. He may not have it. Appeal to his personal interest - this is much more effective.
Getting up early in the morning may not be a vice, but it is certainly not a virtue. The old proverb regarding the early bird only reminds that the worm should stay in bed.
Don't create future problems for your children by making their life carefree.
Dag Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) – Swedish economist and diplomat, UN Secretary-General (1953–1961).
We are not given the opportunity to choose the limits of our destiny. But everything we fit in them is ours.
In our era, the road to holiness inevitably passes through the world of action.
Never give up your experience and beliefs “for the sake of peace and tranquility.”
The more confidently you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what sounds outside.
Never look down to check your footing before your next step; only those who keep their eyes on the distant horizon will find the right path.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) – English novelist and poet.
If Galileo had said in verse that the Earth rotates, the Inquisition would have left him alone.
No one can read with profit what he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Provide the enemy not only with a route to retreat, but also with the means to defend it.
Some want their luck to also be anointed with jam.
There is something worse than blindness - the ability to see something that is not really there.
Once a victim, always a victim - that's the law!
Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) – Norwegian scientist, traveler and writer.
The listener learns more than the speaker. And both the wind and people who continue to live among nature can tell us a lot that you cannot hear within the walls of universities.
Happiness is less likely to be found in a person surrounded by the wonders of technology than in the inhabitants of the desert or jungle, who by the standards of our society would be considered to be living in extreme need, far below the poverty line.
Judging by my personal experience, it is more difficult to find a truly happy person among millionaires than among vagabonds.
Progress is a person’s ability to complicate the simple.
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) was an American writer and religious leader.
I am only one, but I still am. I can't do everything, but I can do something. And I will not refuse on the grounds that I am not able to do everything, to do something that I can do.
If a person has true friends, this is the best sign that he has achieved success in this life.
Wise anger is like fire struck with a flint: it is very difficult to obtain, and when it appears, it is immediately extinguished.
If you have accomplished everything you planned for yourself, you haven’t planned enough.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961) - American writer, Nobel Prize winner (1954).
If you're successful, it's for the wrong reasons. If you become popular, it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
The short answer is not to say, but to do.
Never mistake movement for action.
What is moral is what makes your soul feel light, and what is immoral is what makes your soul feel heavy.
Always do what you promised to do when you were drunk. This will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) - American writer, author of the famous book “Think and Grow Rich” about the principles of personal success.
Success in its highest and noblest form requires the peace of mind, joy and happiness available only to a person who has found a job that he likes best.
Do not wait. The timing will never be perfect.
Your greatest chance may now be waiting for you right where you are.
More gold has been mined from human thoughts than from the depths of the earth.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
