Famous quotes

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

Aristotle

Aristotle

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Nothing ages as quickly as the memory of a favor.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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Those who educate children well deserve more honors than their own parents, because the former only gave them life, the latter taught them the art of living well.

Jaime de Armiñán

Jaime de Armiñán

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Modestly, television is not guilty of anything. It is a mirror in which we all look at ourselves, and in looking at ourselves, we reflect.

Archimedes

Archimedes

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

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The fame is a piece of nothing that the artist grabs on the fly without knowing why.

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

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The fanaticisms we should fear the most are those that can be confused with tolerance.

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

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The most vulgar and least beautiful places on our body are the ones that provide pleasure.

Jean Lucien Arréat

Jean Lucien Arréat

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If I involve myself in life, I exaggerate its importance; and if I distance myself from it, I exaggerate its insignificance.

Jean Lucien Arréat

Jean Lucien Arréat

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Unable to change men, institutions are relentlessly changed.

John Ashbery

John Ashbery

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I do not write about my experiences, but from outside of them.