Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Rousseau.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Schopenhauer.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
J. P. Sartre.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pains.
Cicero.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Descartes.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx.
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Nietzsche.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx.