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Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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The solidarity of men is based on the movement of rebellion, and this, in turn, only finds justification in this complicity. We will, therefore, have the right to say that any rebellion that is authorized to deny or destroy this solidarity loses at the same time the name of rebellion and actually coincides with criminal consent.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Freedom consists, first and foremost, in not lying. Wherever lies proliferate, tyranny is announced or perpetuated.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The truth thins down and does not break, and always walks over lies like oil on water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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He who reads a lot and travels a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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In love's beginnings, quick disillusionments often serve as qualified remedies.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Falsehood has wings and flies, and truth follows it crawling, so that when people realize the deception, it's already too late.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Fortunate is the one to whom heaven gave a piece of bread, without being indebted for it to anyone other than heaven itself!

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.