Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
Man has illusions like the bird has wings. That's what sustains him.
Mediocrity is the only thing that suits. This has been established by the majority, and it bites anyone who escapes from it in any way.
The strings that tie the respect of one for another are, in general, strings of necessity.
Reason works slowly, and with so many considerations, on so many principles, that it often falls asleep or gets lost at any moment. Passion works in an instant.
The greatness of a man lies in knowing how to recognize his own smallness.
Our imagination enlarges the present time so much that we turn eternity into nothing, and nothing into eternity.
Two excesses: excluding reason, admitting nothing but reason.