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The best-known Brazilian sayings
- 1 Soft water on hard stone hits until it bores a hole.
- 2 Who has no dog hunts with a cat.
- 3 Grain by grain, the hen fills her crop.
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Alberto Sordi's most famous lines
- 1 Macaroni, you provoked me and now I'm going to destroy you, macaroni!
- 2 I am who I am, and you are…
- 3 The Marquis del Grillo never asks for discounts: he either pays or he doesn't… and I'm not paying you!
N. Farina
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Marguerite Yourcenar's most beautiful lines
- 1 There is no unhappy love: we only possess what we do not possess. There is no happy love: what we possess, we no longer possess.
- 2 We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with pain.
- 3 Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been able to stay alone.
Elise Leclercq
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The most famous Hindi proverbs and their meanings
- 1 A peacock danced in the forest, but who saw it?
- 2 What does a monkey know of the taste of ginger?
- 3 The thief scolds the policeman (the pot calling the kettle black).
विकास चौहान
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Boris Vian's most beautiful quotes
- 1 She had amber skin, as delicious as marzipan.
- 2 What interests me is not the happiness of all men, but the happiness of each one.
- 3 We're not here to get told off.
Clément Clement
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The most famous sayings from Confucius' Analects
- 1 Is it not a pleasure to learn and to practise what you have learned? Is it not a joy to have friends come from afar?
- 2 He who reviews the old and learns the new can be a teacher.
- 3 Learning without thinking is useless; thinking without learning is dangerous.
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Theodor Fontane's best quotes
- 1 That is too wide a field.
- 2 Words of farewell must be short, like declarations of love.
- 3 Between arrogance and humility stands a third thing to which life belongs: courage.
dichter
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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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Henrik Ibsen's best quotes
- 1 The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
- 2 Take the life-lie from an average man and you take his happiness away at the same time.
- 3 All or nothing.
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Nâzım Hikmet's best-loved lines (with the poem they come from)
- 1 To live like a tree, single and free, and like a forest, in brotherhood: this longing is ours.
- 2 If I don't burn, if you don't burn, if we don't burn, how will darkness come out into the light?
- 3 Time stands within me like a fragrant red rose.
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Pablo Neruda's most famous lines
- 1 Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
- 2 I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
- 3 My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Felipe T.
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Stefan Zweig's best-known quotes
- 1 She was still too young to know that life gives nothing for free and that everything fate grants has a secret price on it.
- 2 Only distance wins you back to yourself!
- 3 What is the point of living if the wind behind our shoes already blows away our last trace?
Matthias Müller
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Michael Ende's most beautiful quotes (from Momo and The Neverending Story)
- 1 Time saved is time doubled!
- 2 On a steamer heading the wrong way, you cannot walk very far in the right direction.
- 3 There is a great and yet quite everyday secret. Everyone shares in it, everyone knows it.
Matthias Müller
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Antonio Gramsci's most famous quotes
- 1 Indifference is a powerful force in history. It acts passively, but it acts.
- 2 Educate yourselves… Agitate… Organise, because we shall need all our strength.
- 3 To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
Alessia Lombardo
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Verlaine's most famous lines
- 1 The long sobs of the violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
- 2 I remember the days of old and I weep
- 3 And I go off on the ill wind that carries me here and there, like a dead leaf.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's most famous quotes
- 1 To be a poet, you need a lot of time.
- 2 Only loving, only knowing matters, not having loved, not having known.
- 3 Do not fool yourself: passion is never forgiven.
Alessia Lombardo
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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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Balzac's most famous lines
- 1 It's between the two of us now!
- 2 The secret of great fortunes with no apparent cause is a forgotten crime, because it was neatly done.
- 3 Laws are spider's webs through which the big flies pass and in which the little ones get caught.
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Hegel's best-known sentences
- 1 The true is the whole.
- 2 The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
- 3 When philosophy paints its grey in grey, a shape of life has grown old.
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The most popular Polish proverbs
- 1 As you make your bed, so you will sleep.
- 2 A Pole is wise after the damage is done.
- 3 Where two fight, the third one profits.
Aleksandra Piotrowska
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The best-known Russian proverbs
- 1 Without effort you can't even pull a fish out of a pond.
- 2 The slower you go, the further you'll get.
- 3 Moscow wasn't built at once.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie's most famous words
- 1 I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
- 2 A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena that impress him like a fairy tale.
- 3 Radium should not enrich anyone. It belongs to all people.
Aleksandra Piotrowska
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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.
N. Farina
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Coco Chanel's most famous quotes
- 1 Fashion goes out of fashion. Style never does.
- 2 A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.
- 3 Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Nicolas L.
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