Famous quotes

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

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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The unhappy are selfish, unjust, cruel, and incapable of understanding others. The unhappy do not bring people together, they separate them.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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People who live alone always have something on their mind that they would be willing to share.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred towards something.

Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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What is worth doing is worth doing well.

Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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There will be friends who will openly declare our faults to us, and yet will not decide to mention our follies.

Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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Man hates those who make him feel his own inferiority.

Benjamin Constant

Benjamin Constant

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We must decide, act, and be silent.

James Cook

James Cook

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How wise are those who are only foolish in love!

John Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge

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It would be foolish to pretend that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can make them, and serious ones. The people know it and pay the consequences; but compared to the mistakes that have been committed by any kind of autocracy, these others are unimportant.

Diego Luís Córdoba

Diego Luís Córdoba

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Ignorance leads to servitude, education leads to freedom.