Quotes and thoughts

Visits always give pleasure: if not at the arrival, at the departure.
Portuguese saying


To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals, courtesy; to inferiors, nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin


Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen


Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman


The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
John Blake


We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy


No one is useless in this world if he can lighten the burdens of others.
Charles Dickens


Hell and heaven are both disproportionate. The acts of men don't deserve that much.
Jorge Luis Borges


Nothing is lost if one is brave enough to procclaim everything is lost, and that we need to start over.
Julio Cortázar


Pursuing the impossible is what has always helped man achieve the possible; those who have carefully limited to do what it seemed possible to them have never advanced more than a step.
Mijail Alexándróvich Bakunin


We need to dream, but under the condition of believing seriously in our dream, of scrutinizing real life, of confronting our observations with our dream, of scrupulously carrying out our fantasy!
Vladimir Ilich Ulianov


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