Famous quotes

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

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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One friend in life is plenty. Two are too many. Three are impossible.

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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Someday science may have human life in its hands, and by causing the world to explode, the human species may incur in collective suicide.

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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A teacher works for eternity: no one can say where their influence ends.

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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Chaos is the law of nature; order is the dream of man.

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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The chaos often generates life, while order generates habits.

Nothing possible is beautiful, only the real is beautiful.

The reader who does not admire a good book is the one who has read it poorly, and admirable passages can be cited to them that, undoubtedly, they are unaware of.

The men who have the intelligent expression, disappoint later because they do not give everything they promised us. In this sense, it is an advantage to seem foolish.

There is nothing more dangerous than an idea when you only have one.

It is said that the new generations will be difficult to govern. I hope so.

Emilio Alarcos Llorach

Emilio Alarcos Llorach

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I try not to have too much passion. Passion is letting go, becoming a passive subject.

Enrique Sealtiel Alatriste

Enrique Sealtiel Alatriste

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Somewhere in the soul, the deserts of loss, of fermented pain, extend; dark wastelands crouched behind the landscapes of the days.