Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

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One must avoid the battle instead of winning it. There are victories that impoverish the defeated, but do not enrich the victor.

Carl Zuckmayer

Carl Zuckmayer

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Half of life is luck, the other discipline; and this is decisive because, without discipline, one wouldn't know where to start with luck.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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It's not enough to just think about death, but one must always keep it in front. Then life becomes more solemn, more important, more fruitful, and joyful.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Those who proclaim that they fight in favor of God are always the least peaceful men on Earth. As they believe to perceive heavenly messages, they are deaf to every word of humanity.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Love is like wine, and like wine, it comforts some and destroys others.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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All science comes from pain. Pain always seeks the cause of things, while well-being tends to remain still and not look back.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Nothing makes people more unnatural and insubordinate than long and constant idleness.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Old age means nothing more than ceasing to suffer for the past.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Sometimes it is nothing more than a very thin door that separates children from what we call the real world, and a little wind can open it.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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The surest measure of all strength is the resistance that overcomes.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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The first sign of genuine political vocation is, at all times, that a man renounces from the beginning to demand what is unattainable for him.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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It is not until we realize that we mean something to others that we feel there is an aim or purpose in our existence.