Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
Freedom consists, first and foremost, in not lying. Wherever lies proliferate, tyranny is announced or perpetuated.
The truth thins down and does not break, and always walks over lies like oil on water.
He who reads a lot and travels a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot.
In love's beginnings, quick disillusionments often serve as qualified remedies.
Falsehood has wings and flies, and truth follows it crawling, so that when people realize the deception, it's already too late.
Fortunate is the one to whom heaven gave a piece of bread, without being indebted for it to anyone other than heaven itself!
Weapons have as their purpose and end peace, which is the greatest good that men can desire in this life.
Skill is to cunning what dexterity is to deceit.
As far as we have lost belief, we have lost reason. Both have the same authoritative and primary condition. Both constitute methods of proof that, in turn, do not admit to being proven. And in the act of annihilating the idea of divine authority, we undermine that human authority from which we cannot even dispense to say that two and two are four.
People don't care about anything; as long as they don't throw garbage from the other side of the wall, or the smell of decay reaches their terrace, the world can sink into crap.
Marry an archaeologist. The older you get, the more charming they will find you.
No matter how disillusioned we may be, it is impossible to live without some hope. We always hold on to one, despite ourselves, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the other explicit hopes we have rejected or exhausted.