Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.

François de La Rochefoucauld · Reflections, maxim 209

There are other people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love mentioned.

François de La Rochefoucauld · Reflections, maxim 136

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from other people.

François de La Rochefoucauld · Reflections, maxim 135

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

François de La Rochefoucauld · Reflections, maxim 138

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Charles Lamb

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

“Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.”

“There are other people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love mentioned.”

“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from other people.”

“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

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