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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein

Book of L - Quotable Wit and Wisdom Collection 3

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a person may live long yet live very little."
- Michel de Montaigne

Book of L - Quotable Wit and Wisdom Collection 3

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
- Epictetus

Book of L - Quotable Wit and Wisdom Collection 3

"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
- Michel de Montaigne

"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."
- Thomas Carlyle

"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
- Albert Einstein

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
- Voltaire

"He who fears will suffer, he already suffers from his fear."
- Michel de Montaigne

"We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him."
- Michel de Montaigne

"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
- Oliver Goldsmith

"The good is the beautiful."
- Plato

"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
- John Locke