Famous quotes

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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I do not sell myself, it is the only luxury of the poor.

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones.

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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And without love everything is nothing.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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Life is not meant to be understood, but to be lived.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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Friends are that part of the human race with whom one can be human.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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There are two kinds of compassion. One, the weak and sentimental [...] which is not exactly compassion, but rather an instinctive defense of the soul against the pain of others. And the other, the only one that matters, is devoid of sentimentality [...] willing to endure with patience and resignation until its last strength and even beyond.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Every shadow is, after all, a daughter of light and only those who have known the clarity and the darkness, the war and the peace, the rise and the fall, only they have truly lived.

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Mariano Aguiló

Mariano Aguiló

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Forget what you have given to remember what you have received.

Nothing takes as long as that which is never started.

Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti

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The best legacy a father can leave to his children is a little bit of his time every day.