Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
A minute of honest and sincere life is worth more than a hundred years of hypocrisy.
Man should not blindly follow a fixed course.
Maternal love is always great, but it reaches the sublime when mixed with admiration for the beloved child.
The truths of men must be like stones and the positions they hold, like pitchers: no matter what happens, the pitcher must be broken.
The horizon is in the eyes and not in reality.
Man is the most mysterious and perplexing of the objects discovered by science.
To eradicate bad practices, the law is much less useful than individual efforts.
Our strength lies in our ideal with our poverty, not in wealth without ideals.
The art of a prince consists of doing good personally and evil second-hand.
The human character is like a balance: on one side lies moderation, and on the other audacity. The timid who is moderate and the indiscreet who is bold are imbalanced scales, useless tools.
The fury with which the current world seeks pleasure proves that it lacks it.
Women have only one path to surpass men in merits: to become more of a woman every day.