Famous quotes

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

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The experience of centuries proves that luxury heralds the decline of empires.

Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

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If you have the habit of taking things with joy, you will rarely find yourselves in difficult circumstances.

Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

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Try to leave this world a little better than you found it.

Joan Baez

Joan Baez

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If you don't fight to end corruption and decay, you will end up becoming part of it.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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It is good to be free from vices, but it is very bad to have no temptations.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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You can talk about the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius, but the real tyranny is that of the next-door neighbor.

John Baines

John Baines

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The first step to solving problems is optimism. Just believing that something can be done is already halfway there and victory is very close.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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I am only free to the extent that I recognize the humanity and respect the freedom of all men around me.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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The state is an immense cemetery where all manifestations of individual life go to be buried.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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If society had not been invented, man would have continued to be a wild beast, or, what amounts to the same thing, a saint.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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In even the purest democracies, such as the United States and Switzerland, a privileged minority holds power over the enslaved majority.