People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Pierre Corneille

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Molière

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Georges Braque

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

Isocrates

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

André Malraux

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

René Descartes

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

André Breton

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde