Famous quotes

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

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Everyone would like to live a long time, but no one would want to be old.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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It is an axiom that he who is universally granted the second place has undeniable merits to occupy the first.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Nothing is constant in this world except inconsistency.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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No man will accept advice, but everyone will accept money. From this it follows that money is worth more than advice.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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One enemy can do more harm than the good that ten friends together can do.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Apollo, the god of medicine, used to send diseases. In the beginning, the two professions were one, and it remains so.

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

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It is difficult to have precise convictions when speaking of matters of the heart.

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

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The important thing is to seek. It doesn't matter if it's found or not.

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

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Don't leave me alone among people full of certainties. Those people are terrible.

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

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Personally, I don't trust literature that soothes people's conscience.

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

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I read the books that were supposed to explain the world to me, as if the world could be explained in books.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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Truth is strengthened by investigation and deliberation; falsehood, by haste and uncertainty.