Any weapon is powerless against evil. What’s more important is to know its roots.
Why are you here, if no one feels lighter or happier because of you?
Love is a state where you cannot be happy unless the one you love is happy.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. — John Lennon.
We are as kind as we are capable of taming the animal within us. — Zdenko Domančić.
Man is not made to endure defeat. He can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated. — Ernest Hemingway.
Endure, soul, evil will rise regardless, whether buried in the depths of the world or not. — William Shakespeare.
Want to ruin relationships? Start arguing.
Better to starve than eat anything. Better to be alone than with anyone. — Omar Khayyam.
Who is not capable of enduring suffering with dignity will not be able to find happiness.
The most important thing in life is to survive the moment when everything seems lost.
If you believe in the power of truth, don’t try to convince anyone, truth will win on its own. — Rostand.
A bone thrown to a dog is not mercy. Mercy is sharing the bone with the dog when you are just as hungry as it is. — Jack London.
Nothing shows superior character more than good conduct in an argument that cannot be avoided. — Henry Taylor.
It is darkest just before dawn. — Benjamin Disraeli.
He who laughs always wins over those who cry. — Slovakian.
Postponement is always unpleasant, but it gives time to think. — Publius Syrus.
It is not enough to fight your flaws, you must also fight your talents to make them grow. — Shaplan.
It is foolish to fear that which is inevitable. — Publius Syrus.
Only the strong are capable of forgiveness.
I have often regretted my words, but never regretted staying silent. — Publius Syrus.
If there is no further growth, the end is near. — Seneca the Younger.
The finest pleasure is giving pleasure to others. — La Bruyère.
Extreme despair always brings great strength. — Stefan Zweig.
I respect the person who can smile in adversity, draw strength from sorrow, and find courage in reflection. — Payne.
The righteous should smile, not be angry.
Before saying something to others, say it to yourself. — Seneca the Younger.
A man’s wisdom lies in his tolerance.
Life teaches little to one who has not learned to endure suffering. — Count.
He who can endure can achieve everything he desires. — Franklin.
He who knows little and knows that he knows little, knows much.
Most of life is spent on mistakes and other actions, a significant part flows in inaction, and often life is in what we fail to do. — Stendhal.
Only at the end of life do you realize that your whole life has been a lesson, where you were a careless student. — V. Rozanov.
Before doing something, you must think not only about the action itself but also about ourselves, our present, past, and future, and about the people affected by the action, and connect all of this together. — Blaise Pascal.
In this world, success comes only to those who seek the conditions they need, and if they don’t find them, they create them.
To live honestly, you must struggle, stumble, fight, make mistakes, start over, quit, start again, and always struggle and lose. And peace is the moral cowardice of the soul. — Leo Tolstoy.
To love people, you must expect little from them. — Helvétius.
It is not the action itself, but the intentions behind it that define moral character. — Democritus.
True great people, I believe, must feel a deep sadness in the world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky.
He who is poor in love is stingy even with his politeness. — Friedrich Nietzsche.
Treat humanity in the person of any individual as an end, and not as a means. — Immanuel Kant.
Freedom begins with irony. — Victor Hugo.
If you notice that you are on the side of the majority, that’s a sure sign it’s time to change. — Mark Twain.
Nothing compares to a lesson without words and the effect of inaction. — Laozi.
It is easier to overcome bad habits today than tomorrow. — Confucius.
Be calm to be incomprehensible. Be just to rule. — Sun Tzu.
Perfection of form is the advantage of falling epochs. — V. Rozanov.
When you ask for little, dissatisfaction and refusal are unlikely. But everything given, as part of the whole, has the remarkable quality of being connected to the rest. And if you continue to “pull…” you will not withstand the whole.
There is a persistent prejudice that impartiality is achievable. Knowing ourselves, we would prefer that the fate of our affairs depend less on people.
Those we love always have power over us.
If we accept people as they are, we make them worse. But if we treat them as they should be, we help them become what they are capable of being. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Considering the need to enhance the self-esteem of a person in a difficult situation, it is advisable to praise them in their own eyes and in the eyes of others.
Increasing the requesting impact directed at the opponent reduces the likelihood of the request being fulfilled.
Do not impose your own ideas on others without first making room for them.
Speak not what you want to say, but what those who listen to you want to hear.
A woman is always as she is next to a man.
The more good in a person, the less he notices the bad in others.
Great enterprises rarely succeed the first time. — Louis Bonaparte
The word cannot compare in sound to the effect of silence. — Philip Sidney
When someone is out of step, do not hasten to judge them: perhaps they are hearing the sound of another march. — Henry Thoreau
If you are demonstratively ignored, it means you are being seriously considered.
To the one who asks for haste, give delay: the longer they wish, the more they value. — Baltasar Gracian
Do not start again where you have already begun.
Do not trust others’ pessimism, do not nurture your own.
Each of us is a child of a significant victorious moment. We are all masters of our fate at the beginning, and then, until the end, its executors.
Do not search for meaning. The search condemns a person to suffering, the constant result of which is always the belief in meaninglessness.
To notice, we scrutinize and observe. And we do not notice how, by doing so, we narrow the world we are in.
Do not rush events. If someone truly needs something, they will show themselves again.
There is no better way to attract others to your side than by an unexpected, bright, memorable, literally shouting action on your behalf and in your favor.
To please others, you must speak to them about what pleases them and what occupies them, avoid disputes about trivial matters, ask few questions, and never let them suspect that one might be wiser than they. — François de La Rochefoucauld
A common way to reproach someone is to stop paying attention to them. When embarking on the road of revenge, don’t forget to prepare two graves, one of which is for you.
Better a friendship based on business than a business based on friendship.
Great deeds must be done without hesitation, so that the thought of danger does not weaken courage and swiftness. — Julius Caesar
Do not expect gratitude to remain in a person’s soul. We have all reached our current position thanks to others’ help. But most of us will claim that we owe our success only to ourselves. — Harvey Mackay
The great art of making a person brave is first forcing them to acknowledge the valiant nature within them, and then instilling in them the same fear of disgrace that nature has instilled in them about death. — Bernard Mandeville
If you want not to lose, say that you have nothing.
Today’s day is more valuable than two tomorrows.
Audacity is the best way out of a hopeless situation.
People usually torment those close to them under the pretext that they wish them well. — François de La Rochefoucauld
The one who pretends to be a savior risks being crucified.
Never trust a first impression, especially if you see a woman in a ball gown. Look at this woman when your feelings are calm and in an everyday setting. — Paolo Mantegazza
A wise person learns all their life, a fool teaches all their life.
Where there are people, our life, our plans, and our safety depend not only on us but also on them, unpredictably.
All actions are limitless in their feasibility, as long as they are not limited by their non-existence.
Before making a mistake, close the door.
In confusion, truth: “How do I enter now?” — Rabindranath Tagore
We exist only when we nurture our individuality.
Of all ways to invoke and stimulate interest, the dissimilarity of people from each other is the most effective.
The evil done to another person reduces the victim’s attractiveness in the eyes of the offender.
Create a situation for someone where they feel awkward, and they are yours.
If you revive a person’s meaningful past, they become gentler, kinder, and more compliant.
Invest the necessary meaning into what you hear and convey it to the speaker as their true thought.
