Famous quotes

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

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Hope is a Christian virtue that consists of despising all the wretched things of this world in anticipation of enjoying, in an unknown country, unknown delights that the priests promise us in exchange for our money.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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To obtain the smallest fortune, it is worth more to say four words to the king's mistress than to write a hundred volumes.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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The one who is afraid of poverty is not worthy of being rich.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Whoever does not have all the intelligence of their age, has all their misfortune.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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To the living, we owe respect, but to the dead, we owe only the truth.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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The way a person takes control of their destiny is more determining than the destiny itself.

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

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Nothing weighs as much as the heart when it is tired.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The democracy has emerged from the idea that if men are equal in any respect, they are equal in all.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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There is neither fortune nor misfortune in the world, but the comparison of one state with another, that is all. Only the one who has experienced the height of misfortune can feel supreme happiness. It is necessary to have wanted to die, my friend, to know how good and beautiful life is.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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The more sinister a politician's desires are, the more pompous, in general, their language becomes.