Short quotes

Collection of phrases and short quotes to share on your social networks.

Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps

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The sun shines everywhere, but some only see their shadows.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog, without dispelling it.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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History is the novel of facts, and the novel is the history of feelings.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Men who are self-sufficient are useless to true friendship.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Pleasure and pain are the only two springs that move and will move the world.

Fortune is like a garment: too loose it burdens us, and too tight it oppresses us.

Genius is revealed in adverse fortune; in prosperity, it is concealed.

The lofty gifts of the gods cannot be easily destroyed by mortal men, nor yield to their forces.