Famous quotes

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Don't give someone what they ask for, but rather what you understand they need; and then endure the ingratitude.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Never despair, even in the darkest afflictions, for from black clouds falls clean and fecundating water.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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What good is it to try to define happiness if one cannot become happy through it?

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Most people are afraid of death because they haven't done anything with their life.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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I don't believe that friends are necessarily the people you like the most, they are simply the people who were there first.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Unfortunately, the balance of nature stipulates that the superabundance of dreams is paid for with an increase in nightmares.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Parents are the bones with which children sharpen their teeth.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Since we are destined to live our lives in the prison of our mind, let us at least furnish it well.

Juan Valera

Juan Valera

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The universe, with all its splendor and beauty, is chaos for the man without faith.

Juan Valera

Juan Valera

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The visible universe, that is, the realization or embodiment of divine thought, is the occasional cause of science.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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There is someone so intelligent that they learn from the experience of others.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Stupidity is an extraordinary disease, it is not the patient who suffers from it, but the others.