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Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. (It’s not true that we have little time: the truth is that we waste a lot of it.)
Seneca, De brevitate vitae, I, 3.

You can’t overestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Charles Bukowski

Humans are very conservative in some ways and virtually never change numerical conventions once they grow used to them. They even come to mistake them for laws of nature.
Isaac Asimov

Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
David Benioff

Death, memory, memories, these are the three fundamental key words of all human art.
Carl William Brown

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
Bertrand Russell

Privacy is power. People cannot destroy what they do not know.
Anonymous

Having your head in the clouds is very comfortable, it allows you to meet only people who know how to fly.
Alda Merini

You shouldn’t need a stupid mass of people to confirm your value, your confidence must come from within.
Carl William Brown

A wise man never knows all. Only fools know everything.
African proverb

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.
Taika Waititi

There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is.
Virginia Woolf

Those who have left us are not absent, they are invisible, they keep their eyes full of glory fixed on ours full of tears.
Saint Augustine

Avoid people, or better don’t trust people, who don’t like you, or that are close to them.
Carl William Brown

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

The history of great world leaders is often the history of human folly.
Voltaire

Universe doesn’t even know that you exist, therefore take it easy and relax!
Carl William Brown

We cannot live as long as we want, and we die even if we do not want to.
Saint Augustine

October was always the least dependable of months
full of ghosts and shadows.
Joy Fielding

It’s human nature when you lose money quickly you want to make it back twice as quick. Slow down, keep focused, and stick to your strategy.
Ian Cassel

The ability to cut a loss while it’s small is a core trading skill.
Steve Burns

Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
Anonymous

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.
Robert E. Howard

Time forbids you to go back and change the beginning, but you can proceed further on and try to change the ending.
Carl William Brown

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpots

Go boldly after what you want and expect some setbacks, some disappointments, and some rotten days. Embrace them all as a valuable part of the process and learn to say, Thank you, teacher.
Mark Minervini

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

Unfortunately, the constant thought of death has bothered me all my life.
Carl William Brown

When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Viktor Frankl

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
Edgar Allan Poe

Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
Ichabod Crane

The more easily you get offended, the less intelligent you actually are.
Anonymous

Those we love and have lost are no longer where they were but are everywhere we are.
Saint Augustine

Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds true love?
Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Halloween is opportunity to be really creative.
Judy Gold

Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.
Carl Jung

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
Seneca

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
Niccolò Machiavelli

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
Thomas More

Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is, you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.
Jim Carrey

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose?
Bram Stoker

On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.
Nicholas Gordon

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
J.K. Rowling

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen King

If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Douglas Copeland

Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.”
Elvis Duran

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
Steve Almond

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Carl von Clausewitz

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
Carl Jung

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Never tell somebody everything, you might be educating an enemy.
Anonymous

La medicina antica non potendo curare i malati si accontentava di resuscitare i morti.
Jean Charles.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Ayn Rand

Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
Sun Tzu

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean de La Fontaine

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde

Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Homer, The Iliad

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak. Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda

The literal meaning of life is wahtever you are doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
Albert Camus

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith

In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.
Osho

So-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments

Seneca

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
Eric Fromm

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
Khalil Gibran:

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire

It’s always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Carl Sandburg

When you feel off, turn your body on.
Lift, run, train, walk.

When you overthink, turn your body off. Sit, write, journal, meditate.
Anonymous

The memory of the past unfortunately torments us forever, the pain of life that is gone in fact for those who think never goes away.
Carl William Brown

Your body isn’t just a home, it’s a vehicle. Use it to change yourself- mentally and physically.
Zack Pogrob

Mastering the art of controlling your reactions to the things that trigger you is where healing begins.
Anonymous

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch

The difference between animals and humans is … Animals would never allow the dumbest of them to lead the pack.
Anonymous

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Even pains are, after a long time, a joy, for those who remember all that they have been through and endured.
Homer

Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
Voltaire

The Middle East, the cradle of various religions, once again demonstrates the goodness of these spiritual inventions.
Carl William Brown

The more unworthy they are of holding institutional positions, the more careless and full of foolishness and arrogance they appear to be.
Democritus

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger.
Plato

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Plato

I dedicate my works to those who do not know them, to those who will face them badly and to those who will not like them.
Carl William Brown

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

My mother gave me life and when she died she also took it away, so spirits and memories are the only things left.
Carl William Brown

None of the mortals will ever spend their life completely free from pain, each one always pays his price for life.
Aeschylus

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer

The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not Ignorance, It is the Illusion of Knowledge.
Stephen Hawking

No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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