Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
To obtain the smallest fortune, it is worth more to say four words to the king's mistress than to write a hundred volumes.
Whoever does not have all the intelligence of their age, has all their misfortune.
To the living, we owe respect, but to the dead, we owe only the truth.
It is my job to never be satisfied.
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.
The more sinister a politician's desires are, the more pompous, in general, their language becomes.