Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
Hope is a Christian virtue that consists of despising all the wretched things of this world in anticipation of enjoying, in an unknown country, unknown delights that the priests promise us in exchange for our money.
To obtain the smallest fortune, it is worth more to say four words to the king's mistress than to write a hundred volumes.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
The one who is afraid of poverty is not worthy of being rich.
Whoever does not have all the intelligence of their age, has all their misfortune.
To the living, we owe respect, but to the dead, we owe only the truth.
It is my job to never be satisfied.
The way a person takes control of their destiny is more determining than the destiny itself.
Nothing weighs as much as the heart when it is tired.
The democracy has emerged from the idea that if men are equal in any respect, they are equal in all.
There is neither fortune nor misfortune in the world, but the comparison of one state with another, that is all. Only the one who has experienced the height of misfortune can feel supreme happiness. It is necessary to have wanted to die, my friend, to know how good and beautiful life is.
The more sinister a politician's desires are, the more pompous, in general, their language becomes.