Famous quotes

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

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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A lazy man is a clock without a spring.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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One can love without being happy; one can be happy without loving; but to love and be happy is something marvelous.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The law is inexorable, like dogs: it only barks at those who are poorly dressed.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The death is someone who withdraws from himself and returns to us. There are no more dead than those carried by the living.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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If you want to do something in life, don't believe in the word impossible. Nothing is impossible for a strong will.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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So in life, many times, one does not know if it is oneself pushing the events or if it is the events that drag one along.

Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault

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Mature age is the one in which you are still young, but with much more effort.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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The first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind is curiosity.

Valeriu Butulescu

Valeriu Butulescu

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The ignorance is the heaviest burden. But those who carry it do not feel it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Crimes carry the punishment on their backs.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Journalism essentially consists of saying 'lord Jones has died' to people who didn't know that lord Jones was alive.