Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
You have to take people as they are, there are no others.
It's easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Only with someone who loves you can you show yourself weak without provoking a strong reaction.
We don't need a perfect government; we need one that is practical.
All flatterers are mercenaries, and all men of low spirit are flatterers.
If they praise me so much, it must be because they are praising themselves, since by praising me they imply that they understand me.
Not every ending deserves the name of end, only the one that is optimal.
It is not convenient to speak of modesty as a virtue. It rather resembles an emotion than an acquired disposition. It is defined, therefore, as a fear of giving a bad opinion of oneself.
Movement is the transition from potentiality to actuality.