Famous quotes

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

Patrick J. Kennedy

Patrick J. Kennedy

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Terrorists attempt to modify our behavior by provoking fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

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Every time a man defends an ideal, acts to improve the fate of others, or fights against an injustice, he transmits a tiny wave of hope.

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

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It's possible that we may not be capable of loving precisely because we desire to be loved, because we want the other person to give us something (love), instead of approaching them without demands and wanting only their mere presence.

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain is as heavy as the pain felt with someone, for someone, multiplied by the imagination, prolonged in a thousand echoes.

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

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Whose reputations do they depend on? Almost always those who have none.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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It is better to remain silent and let them suspect your lack of wisdom than to speak and remove any doubt about it.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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I don't believe that the strictest justice is always the best policy.

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

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If fame only comes after death, I am not in a hurry to achieve it.

José Martí

José Martí

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The homeland is the joy, pain, and heaven of all, and not the fiefdom or chaplaincy of anyone.

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

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Just an inept person always performs at their maximum potential.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Those who are not sure of their memory should refrain from lying.