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

Nicolas Boileau

Nicolas Boileau

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The wisest is the one who, being so, is unaware of it.

Nicolas Boileau

Nicolas Boileau

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The honor is a steep and shoreless island: He who has fallen from it cannot climb back up.

Nicolas Boileau

Nicolas Boileau

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Often the fear of one evil leads us to fall into another worse one.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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The trust must give us peace. Good faith is not enough, it must be shown, because men always see and seldom think.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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For the achievement of triumph, it has always been essential to pass through the path of sacrifices.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Hasten from the country where one person alone exercises all the powers: it is a country of slaves.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Our discords have their origin in the two most abundant sources of public calamity: ignorance and weakness.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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It's difficult to do justice to someone who has offended us.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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The art of winning is learned in defeats.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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It is more difficult to maintain the balance of freedom than to bear the weight of tyranny.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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If a man were necessary to sustain the State, that State should not exist; and in the end, it would not exist.