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Autumn Leaves

Andre Gide

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one whi lies with sincerity."

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

" "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.""

The Art Of War

Sun Tzu

"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near."

Book II

Marcus Aurelius

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. "

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

"Businesses have changed when the public came to expect and require different behavior, to reward businesses for behavior that the public wanted, and to make things difficult for businesses practising behaviors that the public didn't want. I predict that in the future, just as in the past, changes in public attitudes will be essential for changes in businesses' environmental practices."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war."

The Enchiridion

Epictetus

"It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself."

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Oscar Wilde

"The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."

Midnight Library

Matt Haig

"“[…] maybe there are no easy paths. Maybe there are just paths. […] we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad."

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

""Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with shame and regret.""

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

"Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory."

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

" "There was seldom any conversation, especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if only in secret.""

The Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

" “The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”"

Emma

Jane Austen

"Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Following the Equator

Mark Twain

"Prosperity is the best protector of principle."

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

" “It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.”"

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

"Spring is the time of plans and projects."

1984

George Orwell

"“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” "

Don Quixote

Miguel De Cervantes

"Make hay while the sun shines."

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

"Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall."

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Paulo Coelho

"I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life."

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

"Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points."

The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck

Mark Manson

"Certainty is the enemy of growth."

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig

"The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget."

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

"“He ought to question them upon everything, and listen to their opinions, and afterwards form his own conclusions.”"

The Trials Of Socrates

Plato

"This was the method which I adopted: I first assumed some principle which I judged to be the strongest, and then I affirmed as true whatever seemed to agree with this, whether relating to the cause or to anything else; and that which disagreed I regarded as untrue. ...I want to show you the nature of that cause which has occupied my thoughts, and I shall have to go back to those familiar words which are in the mouth of everyone, and first of all assume that there is an absolute beauty and goodness and greatness, and the like; grant me this, and I hope to be able to show you the nature of the cause, and to prove the immortality of the soul."

Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

"The first forty years of life furnish the text, while the remaining thirty supply the commentary."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"It is the habit of the boa constrictor to besmear the body of his victim with a foul slime before he devours it; and there are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are utterly and hopelessly vile. To this end the Dervishes, from the Mahdi and the Khalifa downwards, have been loaded with every variety of abuse and charged with all conceivable crimes. This may be very comforting to philanthropic persons at home; but when an army in the field becomes imbued with the idea that the enemy are vermin who cumber the earth, instances of barbarity may easily be the outcome."

12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson

"“Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.”"

Troades

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Mercy often inflicts death."

New Ways in Psychoanalysis

Karen Horney

"No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time"

The Trials Of Socrates

Plato

"[In what way would you have us bury you?] In any way that you like; only you must get hold of me, and take care that I do not walk away from you. ...I cannot make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates who have been talking and conducting the argument; he fancies that I am the other Socrates whom he will soon see, a dead body... And though I have spoken many words in the endeavor to show that when I have drunk the poison I shall leave you and go to the joys of the blessed—these words of mine, with which I comforted you and myself, have had, I perceive, no effect upon Crito. ...you should be my surety to him that I shall not remain, but go away and depart; and then he will suffer less at my death, and not be grieved when he sees my body being burned or buried."

Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho

"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say “yes” to life?”"

Le Pere Goriot

Honore de Balzac

"„Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.“"

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

"The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous."

Self-Analysis

Karen Horney

"[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself."

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann Hesse

"„It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.“"

Psychology of the Unconscious

Carl Gustav Jung

"Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself."

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

"For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order."

Book III

Marcus Aurelius

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done."

Man's Search For Meaning

Viktor E Frankl

"For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love."

Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig

"Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant."

Surrounded by Idiots

Thomas Erikson

"“Communication happens on the listener's terms.”"

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

"The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

"Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...]."

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

"“He alone knew something that even initiates didn’t know how easy it was to fast.” "

Never Give In!

Winston S Churchill

"Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed."

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."