Short quotes

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

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

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Two things amaze me: the intelligence of beasts and the brutality of men.

Fernando Trueba

Fernando Trueba

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Reading is pleasure, knowledge, emotion, alienation.

Thucydides

Thucydides

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Illustrious men have the entire earth as their tomb.

Thucydides

Thucydides

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Remember that the secret of happiness lies in freedom, and the secret of freedom, in courage.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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The principle of education is to lead by example.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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Everywhere the strongest have made the laws and oppressed the weak.

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

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What good is wit when it does not entertain us? There is nothing more tiresome than a sad wit.

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

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In people's lives there are great mysteries and love is one of the most inaccessible.