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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables
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    Montesquieu
    “An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”
    ― Montesquieu
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Henry Van Dyke
    “Time is
    Too Slow for those who Wait,
    Too Swift for those who Fear,
    Too Long for those who Grieve,
    Too Short for those who Rejoice;
    But for those who Love,
    Time is not.”
    ― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems
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    Stendhal
    “Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
    ― Stendhal
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    William Shakespeare
    “Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
    It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end,
    Will come when it will come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: dramatist-quotes
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    William Shakespeare
    “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
    ― Francois De La Rochefoucauld
    tags: wisdom
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    Christopher Marlowe
    “He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
    ― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
    tags: fall, pleasure
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    Victor Hugo
    “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: ideas
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: honesty, integerity
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero: De Divinatione
    tags: philosophy
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, Essays
    tags: censorship
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “It is a great thing to know your vices.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: writing
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    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    Juvenal
    “Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”
    ― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
    tags: nature
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    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Victor Hugo
    “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine
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