Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
If our friends do us favors, we think they owe them to us as friends, but we don't think they owe us their friendship.
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.
While it is true that joys are short, neither are our sorrows very long.
Great thoughts are born from the heart.
Clarity is the varnish of masters.
It is not true that one has made a fortune when they do not know how to enjoy it.
Passion stronger than friendship is hatred.
Solitude is to the spirit what diet is to the body.
The infallible sign of a bad reign is the excess of praises directed at the monarch.
He who knows how to endure everything can dare anything.
To achieve great things, we must live as if we were never going to die.
The only way to win a war is to avoid it.