Let's review the best phrases in the world, a total of 99 quotes uttered by all kinds of famous or revealing figures of humanity throughout centuries and centuries and that have gone down in history for their transcendence or popularity at a given moment, but that will always remain as part of our classical and modern history.
Do not miss the best phrases in the history of humanity pronounced by characters of all classes, nationalities and conditions; politicians, writers, philosophers and key names of the culture and the art.
The 100 best phrases of all time I Quotes to reflect on
The 99 best phrases in the history of humanity
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Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness (Buddha)
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Learn to live and you will know how to die well (Confucius)
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He who has more, is more afraid of losing it (Leonardo Da Vinci)
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Every day we know more and understand less (Albert Einstein)
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At twenty years old everyone has the face that God has given them; with forty the face that life has given them and with sixty the face they deserve (Albert Schweitzer)
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Setting an example is not the main way to influence others; it's the only way. (Albert Einstein)
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It is human to err and foolish to remain in error (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Of all the animals in creation, man is the only one that drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry and speaks without having anything to say (John Steinbeck)
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Love has no cure, but it is the only medicine for all ills (Konrad Adenauer)
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The human body is the chariot; the self, the man who drives it; Thoughts are the reins, and feelings are the horses (Plato)
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Money can't buy life (Bob Marley)
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Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
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The man who has lived the longest is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one who has experienced life the most (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
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The world is beautiful, but it has a defect called man (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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The world is not in danger from bad people but from those who allow evil (Albert Einstein)
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Birth and death are not two different states, but two aspects of the same state (Mahatma Gandhi)
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The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails (William George Ward)
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The wise man never says everything he thinks, but he always thinks everything he says (Aristotle)
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The only man who does not make mistakes is he who never does anything (Goethe)
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In moments of crisis, only imagination is more important than knowledge (Albert Einstein)
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It is better to remain silent and appear foolish than to speak and clear up doubts definitively (Groucho Marx)
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Love is so short and oblivion is so long (Pablo Neruda)
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Being prepared is important, knowing how to wait for it is even more important, but taking advantage of the right moment is the key to life (Arthur Schnitzler)
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These are my principles and if you don't like them, I have others (Groucho Marx)
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It takes a whole life to learn to live (Seneca)
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There are two kinds of men: those who make history and those who suffer from it (Camilo José Cela)
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There are two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not very sure about the first one (Albert Einstein)
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There are two ways to live your life: one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is a miracle (Albert Einstein)
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There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times (Voltaire)
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Make love and not war (John Lennon)
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Even people who say we can't do anything to change our destiny, look before crossing the street (Stephen Hawking)
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Doubt is the mother of invention (Galileo Galilei)
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Education is the passport to the future, tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today (Malcolm X)
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Hope is a vital stimulant far superior to luck (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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History repeats itself, that is one of the mistakes of history (Charles Darwin)
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working (Picasso)
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I do not believe that the strictest justice is always the best policy (Abraham Lincoln)
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The greatest declaration of love is the one that is not made; the man who feels a lot, speaks little (Plato)
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The measure of love is to love without measure (Saint Augustine)
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The best way to get rid of temptation is to fall into it (Oscar Wilde)
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The worst experience is the best teacher (Kovo)
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The worst fight is the one that is not fought (Karl Marx)
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it (Benjamin Franklin)
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Politics is the art of looking for problems, finding them, making a false diagnosis and then applying wrong remedies (Groucho Marx)
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The root of suffering is attachment (Buddha)
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Religion is the opium of the people (Karl Marx)
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The truth is always revolutionary (Lenin)
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True wisdom is in recognizing one's own ignorance (Socrates)
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Life is ten percent how we make it and ninety percent how we take it (Irving Berlin)
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Life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities to survive (Gabriel García Márquez)
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Wars will continue as long as the color of the skin continues to be more important than the color of the eyes (Bob Marley)
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The worst thing the bad guys do is force us to doubt the good guys (Jacinto Benavente)
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What truly matters in life is not the goals we set, but the paths we follow to achieve them (Peter Bamm)
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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Friends often become thieves of our time (Plato)
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Sins write history, good is silent (Goethe)
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Human beings make their own history, although under circumstances influenced by the past (Karl Marx)
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True leaders must be willing to sacrifice everything for the freedom of their people (Nelson Mandela)
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No man is good enough to rule others without their consent. (Abraham Lincoln)
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No person deserves your tears, and whoever deserves them will not make you cry (Gabriel García Márquez)
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I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I ignore what others may think about them (Copernicus)
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There is no way to the truth, the truth is the way (Mahatma Gandhi)
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There are no paths to peace; peace is the way (Mahatma Gandhi)
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There is no need to go backwards or to gain momentum (Lao Tzu)
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Do not allow any human being to make you fall so low as to hate them (Martin Luther King)
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I don't know what weapons the third world war will be fought with, but the fourth will be with sticks and stones (Albert Einstein)
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Our children will not have time to discuss climate change. They will only be able to live with its effects (Barack Obama)
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Never break the silence if it is not to improve it (Beethoven)
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An eye for an eye and the world will end up blind (Mahatma Gandhi)
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To work, it is enough to be convinced of one thing: that working is less boring than having fun (Charles Baudelaire)
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I think, therefore I am (René Descartes)
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They can cut all the flowers, but they will not be able to stop spring (Pablo Neruda)
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You can fool everyone some of the time. You can fool some all the time. But you can't fool everyone all the time (Abraham Lincoln)
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Whoever has not suffered what I have, should not give me advice (Sophocles)
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Be the change you want to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi)
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It takes little to do things right, but even less to do them wrong. (Paul Bocuse)
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If you give fish to a hungry man you nourish him for a day. If you teach him to fish, you will nourish him all his life (Lao Tzu)
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If it is good to live, it is even better to dream, and best of all, wake up (Antonio Machado)
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If you want to change the world, change yourself (Mahatma Gandhi)
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. (Martin Luther)
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If you want to be happy, be happy (Leo Tolstoy)
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Without pain there are no results (Benjamín Franklin)
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Only he who knows how to be happy with everything can always be happy (Confucius)
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I only know that I know nothing (Socrates)
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All we say is “Give peace a chance” (John Lennon)
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All you need is love (John Lennon)
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Everything that is eaten unnecessarily is stolen from the stomachs of the poor (Mahatma Gandhi)
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A friend to everyone is a friend to no one (Aristotle)
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A faithful friend is a soul in two bodies (Aristotle)
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A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. (Benjamin Franklin)
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An evening in which everyone present is in absolute agreement is a wasted evening (Albert Einstein)
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One is the owner of what one is silent and a slave of what one speaks (Sigmund Freud)
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One becomes great by what one reads and not by what one writes (Borges)
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It is better to act at the risk of regretting it than to regret not having done anything (Giovanni Boccaccio)
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It is better to do and repent than not to do and repent (Machiavelli)
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Conquer anger with serenity. Overcome evil with goodness. Overcome selfishness with generosity. Overcome dishonesty with truth (Buddha)
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Veni, Vidi, Vici (Julius Caesar)
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Live as if you will die tomorrow; learn as if the world would last forever (Mahatma Gandhi)
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Living alone is like being at a party where no one pays attention to you (Marilyn Monroe)