Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own mind.
It is tough to fall, but it is worse never to have tried to climb.
A great democracy must progress or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy.
Tolerance means forgiving the faults of others; tact means not noticing them.
Dizziness is to space what impatience is to time.
Envy in men shows how unhappy they feel, and their constant attention to what others do or fail to do shows how bored they are.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the following thirty, the commentary.
In music, all feelings return to their pure state, and the world is nothing but music made real.
Anger does not allow us to know what we do, much less what we say.
Everyone has the maximum memory for what interests them and the minimum for what does not interest them.
Often things are not given to the one who deserves them the most, but to the one who knows how to ask for them insistently.
Solitude is the fate of all excellent spirits.