Famous quotes

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Weapons have as their purpose and end peace, which is the greatest good that men can desire in this life.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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Skill is to cunning what dexterity is to deceit.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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As far as we have lost belief, we have lost reason. Both have the same authoritative and primary condition. Both constitute methods of proof that, in turn, do not admit to being proven. And in the act of annihilating the idea of divine authority, we undermine that human authority from which we cannot even dispense to say that two and two are four.

Rafael Chirbes

Rafael Chirbes

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People don't care about anything; as long as they don't throw garbage from the other side of the wall, or the smell of decay reaches their terrace, the world can sink into crap.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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Marry an archaeologist. The older you get, the more charming they will find you.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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No matter how disillusioned we may be, it is impossible to live without some hope. We always hold on to one, despite ourselves, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the other explicit hopes we have rejected or exhausted.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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The belief in some kind of supernatural evil is not necessary. Men alone are capable of any evil.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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Life is a farce: that mysterious arrangement of relentless logic for a futile purpose. The most one can expect from it is a certain self-knowledge, which comes too late, and a harvest of unquenchable regrets.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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The secret to ridiculing people lies in attributing talent to those who do not have it.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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I love men not because they are men, but because they are not women.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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Life is a traffic where losses and gains are balanced.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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The smallest fly irritates the most terrible lion.