Frases e pensamentos de grandes autores

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Happiness is a moment of life that is worth it for its own sake.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Where there is great feeling, there is great pain.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. ⏳

God and Nature are one and the same.

As far as I can go, I leave the best of me... if someone didn't see it, it's because they didn't feel me with their heart.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

The fundamental purpose of our lives is to seek happiness, regardless of our culture or religion.

Ethics is what you do when everyone is watching. Character is what you do when no one is watching.

Wherever you are, always look for a friend; nature has given us nothing so sweet that it cannot be shared. 🤝

The Black man is not. No more than the White man. Both must turn away from the inhuman voices of their respective ancestors.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

There is no outside-the-text.

While education alone cannot transform society, without it, society won't change either.

The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range.

What do I know?

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it.