Everything flows, nothing stands still.
—Heraclitus
I obviously do everything to be “hard to understand” myself.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
—Nikolai Gogol
“Lay everything at his dear feet who bled and died for you.”
Social life is based on consciousness, not science. If there’s no honesty, no respect for truth, no respect for responsibilities, no love of one’s neighbor—in a word, if there’s no virtue—everything is in danger, everything crumbles.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
—Heraclitus
“We dwell in a temple of providence and grace where everything speaks of his glory.”
— Charles Spurgeon
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
—Voltaire
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
—Voltaire
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
—Voltaire
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
—Voltaire
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion.
Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everything that promotes the development of civilization also works against war.
—Sigmund Freud
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
—Nikolai Gogol
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
—Nikolai Gogol
Everything that does not suit us in others allows us to understand ourselves.
—Taras Shevchenko