Famous quotes

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

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.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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The public good requires betraying, lying, and massacring.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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The heads of the greatest men shrink when they come together, and where there are more sane people is also where there is less sanity.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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The Christian religion, which seems to have no other purpose than the happiness of the afterlife, also makes us happy in this life.

Paul Morand

Paul Morand

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Complete works crush the reader; they kill the authors and ruin the publishers.

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