Famous quotes

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

George Santayana

George Santayana

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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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Our adherence to a natural leader is not a loss of freedom, it is the recognition that our ideas have an executor and an interpreter.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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For an idea, it is very bad omen to be in fashion, as this implies that it will be forever outdated in the future.

Gonzalo Santonja

Gonzalo Santonja

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Stealth in the face of light was born with men.

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

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The truth is like a nettle; those who barely touch it get stung, but those who grasp it firmly and resolutely are unaffected.

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

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Everyone should marry; it is not permissible to selfishly exempt oneself from a general calamity.

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir

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Humanity ceases to throw stones at its superior spirits as soon as it can raise a monument to them.

Roberto Sapriza

Roberto Sapriza

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Work done with pleasure and love is always an original and unique creation.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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I don't believe in God, I don't need it, and besides, I'm a good person.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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We are the memory we have and the responsibility we assume. Without memory, we do not exist, and without responsibility, perhaps we do not deserve to exist.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Words are just stones placed across the river's current. If they are there, it is so that we can reach the other bank, the other bank is what matters.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Writers live off the unhappiness of the world. In a happy world, there would be no writers.

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