Famous quotes

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

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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War is a method of untying with the teeth a political knot that cannot be undone with the tongue.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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Autoevidente: evidente para uno mismo, pero no para los demás

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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No take the name of God in vain; choose the moment when it takes effect.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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A man is like a tree: In a forest of his peers, he will grow as straight as his individual and generic nature allows; only in open fields, he succumbs to the deforming tensions and twists that surround him.

Josh Billings

Josh Billings

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Life consists not in having good cards, but in playing well the ones you have.

Carlo Bini

Carlo Bini

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I admire that head which proudly carries its misfortune, like a king his crown.

Carlo Bini

Carlo Bini

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Only pain is the eternal king of the earth, and luck strikes with the left and snatches with the right.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Eternity is one of the rare virtues of literature.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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The memory that a book leaves behind is sometimes more important than the book itself.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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I think that part of my love for life is due to my love for books.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Life is hard. To be at peace with oneself, one must tell the truth. To be at peace with others, one must lie.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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The world attributes its misfortunes to the conspiracies and machinations of great evildoers. I understand that stupidity is underestimated.