Famous quotes

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

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

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Your fame is like the flower; that sprouts and dies; and the same sun that made it rise from the bitter earth withers it.

Henry F. Amiel

Henry F. Amiel

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The more one loves, the more one suffers.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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A lazy man is a clock without a spring.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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Reason is a monarch condemned to continually struggle with the rebellious passions.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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He who does not tolerate intolerance is not tolerant.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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The men capable of raising and carrying forward a flag are very few.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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Great men are simple, while mediocre ones are pompous.

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.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Something that is learned in the midst of plagues: that there are more things in men worthy of admiration than of contempt.

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.