Famous quotes

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

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Weapons are instruments for killing and Governments allow people to manufacture and buy them, knowing perfectly well that a revolver can be used in no way other than to kill someone.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Every man lives only for what he hopes.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Money, which has caused the death of so many bodies, makes thousands of souls die every day.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Anger is like fire; it cannot be extinguished except at the first spark. After that, it's too late.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Love is not capable of seeing the bad sides of a being; hatred is not capable of seeing the good sides.

Paracelso

Paracelso

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Nothing is poison, everything is poison: the difference is in the dose.

Paracelso

Paracelso

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Let it not be from another who can be master of oneself.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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The education of women cannot be called education, but rather taming, since its ultimate goal is obedience, passivity, and submission.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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It is absurd for a people to place their hopes of redemption and happiness in forms of government that they do not understand.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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All women conceive ideas, but not all conceive children. The human being is not a fruit tree that is only cultivated for the harvest.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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Any woman who aspires to behave like a man, surely lacks ambition.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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I only ask three things of a man: that he be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.