Famous quotes

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own mind.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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It is tough to fall, but it is worse never to have tried to climb.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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A great democracy must progress or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy.

Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

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Tolerance means forgiving the faults of others; tact means not noticing them.

Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

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Dizziness is to space what impatience is to time.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the following thirty, the commentary.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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In music, all feelings return to their pure state, and the world is nothing but music made real.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Anger does not allow us to know what we do, much less what we say.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Everyone has the maximum memory for what interests them and the minimum for what does not interest them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Solitude is the fate of all excellent spirits.