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The most beautiful quotes from The Little Prince

1 One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
2 Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.
3 It is the time you have spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.

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Karl Popper's most famous quotes

1 If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant… the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
2 There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
3 The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

C. Anderson ❤ 1 · ▲ 44 · 12 items

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The best-known French proverbs

1 Little by little, the bird builds its nest.
2 A scalded cat fears cold water.
3 Everything comes to those who wait.

Pierre Fournier ❤ 1 · ▲ 5 · 16 items

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Terry Pratchett's best quotes from the Discworld

1 Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
2 The Captain Samuel Vimes «Boots» theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
3 Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

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Friedrich Hölderlin's best-known lines

1 But where danger is, grows / The saving power also.
2 But what remains, the poets found.
3 One can also fall upwards, just as one falls into the depths.

Sabine M. ❤ 1 · ▲ 33 · 13 items

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John Steinbeck's best quotes

1 Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone.
2 Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.
3 Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of power.

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The most famous lines from Cyrano de Bergerac

1 It's a rock! A peak! A cape! What am I saying, a cape? It's a peninsula!
2 These are the cadets of Gascony, of Carbon de Castel-Jaloux; shameless swordsmen and liars.
3 But one does not give up the honour of being a target.

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Isaac Asimov's most famous quotes

1 A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2 Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
3 Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

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Osamu Dazai's most famous lines (with sources)

1 Mount Fuji goes well with evening primroses.
2 Faithfulness was not, after all, an empty delusion.
3 With your mouth you can say anything, however pure.

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Kabir's most famous dohas (couplets)

1 The world died reading books, yet no one became wise. / Who reads the two and a half letters of love becomes wise.
2 Slowly, slowly, O mind, everything happens slowly. / The gardener may pour a hundred pots, but fruit comes in its season.
3 Guru and God both stand before me: whose feet should I touch first? / I bow to the guru, who showed me the way to God.

Amit Yadav ❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 12 items

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The best-known Indonesian proverbs and what they mean

1 Calm water sweeps you away.
2 However well a squirrel jumps, in the end it falls.
3 Cheat once in an exam and people distrust you for life.

Eko Utami ❤ 1 · ▲ 32 · 20 items

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Sigmund Freud's best quotes – and the cigar he never mentioned

1 Where id is, there shall ego be.
2 The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
3 Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

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Dante's most famous lines

1 Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark
2 Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
3 You were not made to live like brutes, / but to follow virtue and knowledge.

G. Mancini ❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 13 items

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Astrid Lindgren's best-known quotes, from interviews, letters and books

1 I write for the child in me.
2 My childhood was lived in a country that no longer exists… where did it go?
3 A young, fresh and good time that is easy and simple to live in.

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The most famous morals from La Fontaine's Fables

1 Depending on whether you are powerful or wretched, the court's judgements will make you white or black.
2 Never sell the bear's skin before you have brought it down.
3 Alas! We see that in all times the little ones have suffered for the follies of the great.

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Gabriel García Márquez's most beautiful quotes

1 The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.
2 Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon…
3 Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

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Galileo Galilei's finest quotes

1 Philosophy is written in this grand book that stands continually open before our eyes (I mean the universe)…
2 … the intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
3 Anyone can speak obscurely; very few can speak clearly.

Elena Barbieri ❤ 1 · ▲ 7 · 13 items

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The best Loriot quotes and sketches

1 There used to be more tinsel.
2 A life without a pug is possible, but pointless.
3 Don't say anything now, Hildegard.

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Pío Baroja's sharpest quotes

1 Man: a being a millimetre above the monkey, when not a centimetre below the pig.
2 History is a branch of literature.
3 Literature cannot reflect all the darkness of life. The main reason is that literature chooses and life does not.

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The most famous quotes from The Betrothed

1 This marriage shall not take place, not tomorrow, not ever.
2 The wretched girl answered.
3 Carneades! Who was he?

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Erasmus's most famous sayings

1 The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
2 He gives twice who gives quickly.
3 In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

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The finest lines from Montaigne's Essays

1 Because it was him, because it was me.
2 Every man bears the whole form of the human condition.
3 What do I know?

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Ryszard Kapuściński's most famous quotes (with the book they come from)

1 Only children ask important questions and truly want to learn something.
2 There is such a thing as being infected by travel, and it is essentially an incurable disease.
3 Morning and dusk are the most pleasant hours in Africa. The sun is not yet burning, or no longer scorching: it lets you exist, it lets you live.

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Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous quotes

1 Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
2 God is dead.
3 What does not kill me makes me stronger.

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💬 Quotes & phrases

The most beautiful quotes from The Little Prince

Karl Popper's most famous quotes

The best-known French proverbs

Terry Pratchett's best quotes from the Discworld

Friedrich Hölderlin's best-known lines

John Steinbeck's best quotes

The most famous lines from Cyrano de Bergerac

Isaac Asimov's most famous quotes

Osamu Dazai's most famous lines (with sources)

Kabir's most famous dohas (couplets)

The best-known Indonesian proverbs and what they mean

Sigmund Freud's best quotes – and the cigar he never mentioned

Dante's most famous lines

Astrid Lindgren's best-known quotes, from interviews, letters and books

The most famous morals from La Fontaine's Fables

Gabriel García Márquez's most beautiful quotes

Galileo Galilei's finest quotes

The best Loriot quotes and sketches

Pío Baroja's sharpest quotes

The most famous quotes from The Betrothed

Erasmus's most famous sayings

The finest lines from Montaigne's Essays

Ryszard Kapuściński's most famous quotes (with the book they come from)

Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous quotes