"nōn vīribus aut vēlōcitāte aut celeritāte corporum rēs magnae geruntur, sed cōnsiliō auctōritāte sententiā" [Dē Senectūte 17]
Not by strength or swiftness or speed of bodies are great things achieved, but by deliberation, force of character, and judgment [On Old Age]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and

sweatshops." (Stephen Jay Gould)

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas" (Noam Chomsky)

Am Ende gilt doch nur, was wir getan und gelebt - und nicht was wir ersehnt haben."  (In the end it only matters what we did and lived - not what we craved/longed for)

[Arthur Schnitzler]

"My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not

mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty." (Aung San Suu Kyi)

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

(Bertrand Russell)

"For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling

altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace." (Lucretius 'De Rerum Natura")

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false

friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social

condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Se você quiser ter sucesso, deve respeitar uma regra: Nunca minta a si mesmo."
[If you want to have success, you should respect one rule: never lie to yourself] (Paolo Coelho)

"Junte-se aos que não temem ser vulneráveis, por que esses têm confiança em si mesmos, sabem que todos tropeçam em algum momento e não interpretam isso como um sinal

de fraqueza, mas de humanidade." 
[Join yourself to those who do not fear to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves, they know that everyone stumbles sometimes and they do not interpret

this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity.] (Paulo Coelho, Manuscrito encontrado em Accra)

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"There is no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."  (Freya Stark)

"It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." ~Andrew J. Holmes

"I never would have been President if it weren't for my experiences in North Dakota." (Teddy Roosevelt) 

"You saided it." -my grandmother all the time

"γνῶθι σεαυτόν" [know thyself!] (Socrates)

"The most violent element in society is ignorance." -Emma Goldman

"Der wahre Wert eines Menschen ist in erster Linie dadurch bestimmt, in welchem Grad und in welchem Sinn er zur Befreiung vom Ich gelangt ist." (Einstein) [The true worth

of a man is determined in the first place to what degree and in what sense he has reached freedom from I.]

"Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern." (Karl Marx) [Philosophers have only variously interpreted the world;

but it matters that it be changed.]

"We should do well to commiserate our mutual ignorance, and endeavor to remove it in all the gentle and fair ways of information, and not instantly treat others ill as obstinate

and perverse because they will not renounce their own and receive our opinions, or at least those we would force upon them, when it is more than probable that we are no less

obstinate in not embracing some of theirs." (John Locke)

"There is reason to think, that if men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing on others" (John Locke)

Surgere vultis, sed prīmō sedēte: et surgēns ab humilitāte, pervenis ad regnum. Nam sī praeripis regnum, cadis ā regnō antequam surgās. [St. Augustine, Expositions on the

Psalms: Psalm 126, 5]
(Translation floating around internet:
"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
Literal translation:
You wish to rise, but first sit: and rising from humility, you reach the kingdom. Indeed if you snatch away the kingdom prematurely, you fall from the kingdom before you rise.)

A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.
("Question" Robert Frost)

"The gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor." (Dorothy Day)