There’s nothing wrong with loving your family or your nation, and this happens with everyone. But it’s only harmless as long as you do no evil to others because of your love for your family or nation.
—Leo Tolstoy
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
—Charles Darwin
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.
—Søren Kierkegaard
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
—Stephen Hawking
Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power
—Laozi
Character is simply habit long continued.
—Plato
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I made this letter very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
—Nikolai Gogol
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
—Cicero
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not ‘one thing in my life’ – not even the most important – because my life no longer belongs to me because…you are always me.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
After a long conversation, try to remember everything that was said and you’ll be astonished by how empty, unnecessary, and frequently bad it all was.
—Leo Tolstoy
You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Friends who have no religion cannot be long our friends.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Life well spent is long.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
When I read a good book I wish that life were 3000 years long.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
—Albert Einstein
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
—Seneca
Men don’t like to have Christ preached faithfully; but it is just what they don’t like to have that we must give them. I learned that long ago. The very truths that men object to, and that make them angry, are the truths that bring them to the cross of Christ.
—D. L. Moody
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
—John Milton
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
—Charles Dickens
Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
—Seneca
Life is long if you know how to use it.
—Seneca
Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one’s irritation so long as one doesn’t make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.
—Seneca
If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.
—Seneca