The best aphorisms of Joan Fuster
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Any politics we do not make ourselves will be made against us. · Always claim the right to change your mind: it is the first thing your enemies will deny you. · Aphorisms —mine like everyone else's— are always false, intrinsically false. This one too.. (Updated Jul 8, 2025.)
"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.
Automatically translated (original in Català). See the original
Top 12
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Any politics we do not make ourselves will be made against us.
Diccionari per a ociosos (Dictionary for Idlers, 1964).
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Always claim the right to change your mind: it is the first thing your enemies will deny you.
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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Aphorisms —mine like everyone else's— are always false, intrinsically false. This one too.
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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The worst thing about plagiarism is not that it is theft but that it is redundant.
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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Let's not fool ourselves: honesty is a very expensive luxury.
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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For the poor, money is a mystery. That is why they stay poor.
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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Laws are made by those in a position to respect them, and only because they are.
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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Speech was given to man not to reveal or to hide his thoughts, but to justify them.
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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9
I have never admired any man of action. I regret it.
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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10
You know the famous Greek aphorism: "Joan Fuster is the measure of all things."
Judicis finals (Final Judgements, 1960).
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Dying too young is a mistake. Dying too old, too. In general, dying is always a mistake.
Diccionari per a ociosos (Dictionary for Idlers, 1964).
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I don't understand those who say they despise money. It is so hard to earn!
Diccionari per a ociosos (Dictionary for Idlers, 1964).
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