Famous quotes

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

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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The ultimate function of criticism is to fulfill the natural function of disdain, which is conducive to the good hygiene of the spirit.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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Don't do today what you can also leave undone tomorrow.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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Travels are the travelers. What we see is not what we see, but who we are.

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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The only mystery of the universe is that there is a mystery of the universe.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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No fault is forgotten as long as the conscience remembers it.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Only those whom destiny has struck can truly be helped with love. Only they know how to love and be loved as it should be loved: with gratitude and humility.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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There are two kinds of compassion. One, the weak and sentimental [...] which is not exactly compassion, but rather an instinctive defense of the soul against the pain of others. And the other, the only one that matters, is devoid of sentimentality [...] willing to endure with patience and resignation until its last strength and even beyond.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Every shadow is, after all, a daughter of light and only those who have known the clarity and the darkness, the war and the peace, the rise and the fall, only they have truly lived.

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Mariano Aguiló

Mariano Aguiló

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Forget what you have given to remember what you have received.

Nothing takes as long as that which is never started.

Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti

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The best legacy a father can leave to his children is a little bit of his time every day.