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Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
Benjamin Franklin
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao Tzu
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Oscar Wilde
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
Oscar Wilde
Plato is boring.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
Oscar Wilde
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson