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Ludwig Wittgenstein's best-known sentences

1 The world is all that is the case.
2 What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
3 A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'

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Chamfort's best maxims

1 Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect more than renown, and honour more than glory.
2 Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, very few good remedies and almost no cures.
3 All passions exaggerate, and they are passions only because they exaggerate.

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Matsuo Bashō's most famous haiku

1 The old pond — a frog jumps in, the sound of water
2 The months and days are travellers of a hundred ages; the years that come and go are travellers too
3 Even my grass hut will change hands — now a house of dolls

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Italo Calvino's most famous quotes

1 The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
2 A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
3 Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

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Albert Camus's most famous quotes

1 To misname things is to add to the misery of the world.
2 The opposite of a civilised people is a creative people.
3 One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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Racine's most famous lines

1 It was you who named him!
2 It is no longer a passion hidden in my veins: it is Venus herself fastened on her prey.
3 The decision is made: I am leaving, dear Theramenes.

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Machiavelli's most famous lines (the ones he actually wrote)

1 … one who deceives will always find someone who will let himself be deceived.
2 … men do harm either out of fear or out of hatred.
3 … it is much safer to be feared than loved.

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Immanuel Kant's best-known quotes

1 Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
2 So when you see a dogmatist come forward with ten proofs, you can be sure he has none.
3 Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding!

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Friedrich Schiller's best-known quotes

1 An axe in the house saves calling the carpenter.
2 If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few; pleasing many is bad.
3 The wise man plans ahead.

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Steve Jobs's most famous quotes (and the ones that aren't his)

1 Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
2 You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
3 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

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Diogenes of Sinope's most famous sayings

1 If you are rich, when you like; if you are poor, when you can.
2 Stand a little out of my sunlight.
3 I am looking for a man.

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Franz Kafka's best quotes (with sources)

1 The longer you hesitate at the door, the more of a stranger you become.
2 A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
3 Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

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The most famous quotes from The Twelve Chairs

1 And maybe I should also give you the key to the flat where the money is?
2 The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!
3 How much for the opium of the people?

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Pramoedya Ananta Toer's most famous quotes

1 One may be as clever as the sky is high, but as long as one does not write, one will be lost to society and to history.
2 An educated person must learn to be fair already in their thoughts, let alone in their deeds.
3 Love is beautiful, Minke, too beautiful, the thing one can find in this short human life.

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Mahmoud Darwish's most famous lines

1 On this earth there is what makes life worth living.
2 I long for my mother's bread, my mother's coffee, my mother's touch.
3 And I love my life because if I died I would be ashamed of my mother's tears.

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Atatürk's best-known quotes (with sources)

1 Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation.
2 The Republic wants from you generations free in thought, free in conscience and free in knowledge.
3 In a country without freedom there is death and decay. Freedom is the mother of all progress and salvation.

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The most famous quotes from The Master and Margarita

1 Manuscripts don't burn.
2 Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!
3 People are people… ordinary people… only the housing problem has spoiled them…

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Hermann Hesse's most beautiful quotes (with sources)

1 And in every beginning dwells a magic that protects us and helps us to live.
2 The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born must destroy a world.
3 I wanted only to try to live what sprang from within me. Why was that so very difficult?

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Josep Pla's most famous quotes

1 In this aspect of life there are friends, acquaintances and people you just say hello to.
2 Every year the peasants build the landscape. And the result never fails.
3 In matters of life I have always been very tolerant; with adjectives I never would be.

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The best aphorisms of Joan Fuster

1 Any politics we do not make ourselves will be made against us.
2 Always claim the right to change your mind: it is the first thing your enemies will deny you.
3 Aphorisms —mine like everyone else's— are always false, intrinsically false. This one too.

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The best aphorisms of Stanisław Jerzy Lec

1 Think before you think.
2 Everything has already been written; fortunately, not everything has been thought yet.
3 If only the scapegoat could be milked as well!

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Federico Fellini's most famous quotes

1 All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
2 I am autobiographical even when I talk about a sole.
3 I don't want to demonstrate anything; I want to show.

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Johan Cruyff's most famous sayings

1 Italians can't beat you, but you can lose to them.
2 Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
3 If it isn't going well, then it isn't going well.

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Dostoevsky's most famous quotes

1 Beauty will save the world.
2 Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right?
3 Man is a mystery. It must be solved.

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