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Leo Tolstoy's best quotes

1 All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
2 Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.
3 There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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Kurt Tucholsky's best-known quotes

1 For that is humour: seeing through things as if they were made of glass.
2 What may satire do? Everything.
3 The satirist is a wounded idealist: he wants the world to be good, it is bad, and so he charges against the bad.

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Wilhelm Busch's best sayings

1 Becoming a father isn't hard, / being one, however, is.
2 The good – of this there is no doubt – / is always the bad we go without.
3 It's an old custom, as we know: / where there are worries, liqueurs flow!

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Umberto Eco's most famous quotes

1 A holy war is still a war. That is why perhaps there should be no holy wars.
2 A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.
3 The Templars always have something to do with it.

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Picasso's most famous quotes

1 I do not seek, I find.
2 Painting is stronger than me; it makes me do what it wants.
3 At their age I drew like Raphael, but it took me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like them.

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Mercè Rodoreda's most memorable lines

1 Sadness, which never deceives, had deceived me.
2 The important things are the ones that don't seem so.
3 Things were beautiful, life not so much.

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Virgil's most famous lines (with the Latin and the reference)

1 Fortune favours the bold.
2 There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the heart.
3 Love conquers all: let us too yield to love.

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Millôr Fernandes' best quotes

1 Digress, always.
2 I've been watching and found that not everything is honey in the life of bees.
3 Brazil's history was written by the Portuguese. Hence the accent.

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The most famous lines of Corneille's Le Cid

1 Rodrigue, have you a heart?
2 Go, run, fly, and avenge us.
3 Pierced to the depths of my heart by a blow as unforeseen as it is mortal…

Noémie Faure ❤ 0 · ▲ 3 · 13 items

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The best quotes from Don Quixote

1 Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has given to men
2 It's the church we have run into, Sancho
3 He who reads much and travels much sees much and knows much

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Napoleon's most famous quotes

1 Soldiers, consider that from the top of these monuments forty centuries look down upon you.
2 The only true conquests, the only ones that leave no regret, are those made over ignorance.
3 Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out to light up their century.

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Frigyes Karinthy's funniest explanations of proverbs from his "Simple-Minded Lexicon"

1 All appearances deceive.
2 A barking dog doesn't bite.
3 Walk slowly and you will get further.

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Leopardi's finest prose quotes (Zibaldone and Thoughts)

1 Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
2 Indecision is worse than despair.
3 I live, therefore I hope, is a perfectly correct syllogism.

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Coluche's best lines

1 The hardest part was the end of the month, especially the last thirty days.
2 Frenchwomen, Frenchmen, this year was very good, next year will be worse.
3 I'm capable of the best and the worst, but it's at the worst that I'm the best.

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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 most common Portuguese proverbs

1 Whoever tells a tale adds a stitch.
2 Grain by grain the hen fills her crop.
3 Slowly you go far.

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The most quoted lines from Orhan Pamuk's novels

1 In truth, no one recognizes the happiest moment of their life while they are living it.
2 In this ugly, repulsive world only fools can be happy.
3 Happiness simply means being close to the one you love. We do not need to possess them right away.

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Every winner of the Funniest Joke of the Fringe, ranked

1 I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.
2 I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship, but I bottled it.
3 I thought the word 'Caesarean' began with the letter 'S' but when I looked in the dictionary, it was in the 'C' section.

Sam Quinn ❤ 3 · ▲ 71 · 15 items

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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 lines of Descartes's Discourse on the Method

1 It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well.
2 The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues
3 Never to accept anything as true that I did not plainly know to be such

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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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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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Paulo Freire's most quoted lines (with sources)

1 People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.
2 No one educates anyone else, no one educates himself; people educate each other, mediated by the world.
3 Reading the world precedes reading the word.

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The best-known verses of Yunus Emre

1 I did not come for disputes; my work is for love. The home of love is the heart: I came to build hearts.
2 If you have once broken a heart, the prayer you perform is no prayer; not even seventy-two nations could wash your hands and face clean.
3 Come, let us be friends and make things easy. Let us love and be loved: this world is left to no one.

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💬 Quotes & phrases

Leo Tolstoy's best quotes

Kurt Tucholsky's best-known quotes

Wilhelm Busch's best sayings

Umberto Eco's most famous quotes

Picasso's most famous quotes

Mercè Rodoreda's most memorable lines

Virgil's most famous lines (with the Latin and the reference)

Millôr Fernandes' best quotes

The most famous lines of Corneille's Le Cid

The best quotes from Don Quixote

Napoleon's most famous quotes

Frigyes Karinthy's funniest explanations of proverbs from his "Simple-Minded Lexicon"

Leopardi's finest prose quotes (Zibaldone and Thoughts)

Coluche's best lines

The best aphorisms of Joan Fuster

The most common Portuguese proverbs

The most quoted lines from Orhan Pamuk's novels

Every winner of the Funniest Joke of the Fringe, ranked

Atatürk's best-known quotes (with sources)

The most famous lines of Descartes's Discourse on the Method

Immanuel Kant's best-known quotes

Johan Cruyff's most famous sayings

Paulo Freire's most quoted lines (with sources)

The best-known verses of Yunus Emre