Famous quotes

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

Maruja Torres

Maruja Torres

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Dictatorships suffer the same fate as bicycles; if they stop, they fall.

Paul Jean Toulet

Paul Jean Toulet

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If you cry with joy, don't dry your tears: you steal them from pain.

A. de la Tour Chambly

A. de la Tour Chambly

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Two friends do not love each other in the same way: one kisses, and the other does nothing but offer their cheek.

Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine

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Television will be the basis of public opinion. It has created a schizophrenic world in which there is nothing between the individual and the global.

Achile Tournier

Achile Tournier

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There is nothing more interesting than the conversation of two lovers who remain silent.

Achile Tournier

Achile Tournier

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We must be good not for others, but to be at peace with ourselves.

Achile Tournier

Achile Tournier

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Military personnel rely too much on strength, and politicians rely too much on skill.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee

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The greatest punishment for those who do not take an interest in politics is that they will be governed by people who do.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee

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A nation remains strong when it focuses on its real problems, and it begins its decline when it can attend to minor details.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Civilizations die by suicide, not by murder.

George Travelyan

George Travelyan

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Education has managed to make people learn to read, but it is unable to point out what is worth reading.

Eugenio Trias

Eugenio Trias

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In this life, one must die several times in order to be reborn. And crises, although frightening, serve us to end an era and inaugurate another.