# The best aphorisms of Joan Fuster

"Any politics we do not make ourselves will be made against us", the right to change your mind and plagiarism as redundancy: the most quoted aphorisms of Valencian writer Joan Fuster.

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- Jul 8, 2025 · Berta Vidal Puig
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## Top 12

1. **Any politics we do not make ourselves will be made against us.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Diccionari per a ociosos (Dictionary for Idlers, 1964).
2. **Always claim the right to change your mind: it is the first thing your enemies will deny you.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
3. **Aphorisms —mine like everyone else's— are always false, intrinsically false. This one too.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
4. **The worst thing about plagiarism is not that it is theft but that it is redundant.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
5. **Let's not fool ourselves: honesty is a very expensive luxury.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
6. **For the poor, money is a mystery. That is why they stay poor.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
7. **Laws are made by those in a position to respect them, and only because they are.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
8. **Speech was given to man not to reveal or to hide his thoughts, but to justify them.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
9. **I have never admired any man of action. I regret it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
10. **You know the famous Greek aphorism: "Joan Fuster is the measure of all things."** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
11. **Dying too young is a mistake. Dying too old, too. In general, dying is always a mistake.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Diccionari per a ociosos (Dictionary for Idlers, 1964).
12. **I don't understand those who say they despise money. It is so hard to earn!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Diccionari per a ociosos (Dictionary for Idlers, 1964).

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