Famous quotes

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

José de Espronceda

José de Espronceda

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My ship is my treasure, freedom is my god, my law is strength and the wind, my only homeland is the sea.

León Felipe

León Felipe

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Poets, let us never sing the life of just one nation, nor the flower of a single garden. May all nations and all gardens be ours.

Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle

Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle

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Vanity is self-love exposed.

Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle

Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle

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The good needs to provide evidence; the beautiful does not.

Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle

Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle

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Pride is the complement of ignorance.

Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet

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A minute of honest and sincere life is worth more than a hundred years of hypocrisy.

Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet

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Man should not blindly follow a fixed course.

Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet

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Maternal love is always great, but it reaches the sublime when mixed with admiration for the beloved child.

Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet

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The truths of men must be like stones and the positions they hold, like pitchers: no matter what happens, the pitcher must be broken.

Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet

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The horizon is in the eyes and not in reality.

Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet

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Man is the most mysterious and perplexing of the objects discovered by science.

Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet

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To eradicate bad practices, the law is much less useful than individual efforts.