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“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“As a rule it is circumstances that make men.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“There shall be no Alps.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Divide and Conquer.”
― Julius Caesar

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“Common aim is stronger than blood.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”
― G. I. Gurdjieff

“What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.”
― Gurdjieff

“Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Meetings With Remarkable Men

“an honest being who does not behave absurdly has no
chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind
and sensible he may be.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

“As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Views from the Real World

“Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.”
― G. I. Gurdjief

“Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“When you come to the realization that the totality of yourself, what you have treasured, what your friends have admired, is totally useless, you will suffer, but we say, that it is only from this point that there is any hope for your becoming. We are so incredibly small, mere specks in our whole solar system.”
― George Gurdjieff, Gurdjieff Groups in America

“When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me, and without pain.
From this I understand that
what I want also wants me,
is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great secret here
for anyone who can grasp it.”
― Shams-i Tabrizi

“Every breath is a chance to reborn spiritually. But to be reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.”
― Shams Tabrizi

“You will learn by reading, but you will understand with love.”
― Shams Tabrizi

“No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?”
― Shams Tabrizi

“Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.”
― Shams-i Tabrizi

“The past is an interpretation. The future is an illusion.
The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future.
Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.”
― Shams Tabrizi