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Umberto Eco

Nature
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
4.8 · 26 votes · 113 reads
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Virtues
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
3.1 · 45 votes · 16 reads
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Society
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
3.8 · 13 votes · 148 reads
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Virtues
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
3.8 · 27 votes · 63 reads
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Virtues
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
4.6 · 61 votes · 195 reads
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Various
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
3.0 · 47 votes · 190 reads
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Various
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
5.0 · 62 votes · 175 reads
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Society
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
4.2 · 12 votes · 102 reads
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Various
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
4.0 · 11 votes · 35 reads
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Time
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
5.0 · 16 votes · 43 reads
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Nature
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the
4.8 · 54 votes · 40 reads
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Virtues
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
4.2 · 58 votes · 130 reads
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Feelings
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
4.0 · 33 votes · 179 reads
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Feelings
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
3.1 · 24 votes · 200 reads
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Thought and Reason
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
3.0 · 35 votes · 137 reads
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Virtues
Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
3.4 · 58 votes · 146 reads
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Art and Culture
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
4.5 · 60 votes · 39 reads
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Various
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
4.1 · 26 votes · 81 reads
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Feelings
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
3.8 · 62 votes · 26 reads
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Art and Culture
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
3.3 · 17 votes · 156 reads
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Nature
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
3.3 · 21 votes · 62 reads
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Art and Culture
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
4.0 · 27 votes · 75 reads
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Society
Liberation is not deliverance.
3.9 · 24 votes · 12 reads
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Nature
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
4.0 · 54 votes · 32 reads
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Nature
Life is a voyage.
4.8 · 42 votes · 20 reads
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Feelings
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
3.1 · 60 votes · 15 reads
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Feelings
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
5.0 · 37 votes · 99 reads
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Thought and Reason
Loving is half of believing.
4.3 · 48 votes · 98 reads
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Nature
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
4.7 · 60 votes · 120 reads
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Art and Culture
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
3.6 · 48 votes · 102 reads
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Various
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
4.0 · 28 votes · 96 reads
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Countries
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
3.5 · 59 votes · 70 reads
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Nature
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
3.0 · 27 votes · 119 reads
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Various
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
4.2 · 14 votes · 166 reads
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Various
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
3.2 · 59 votes · 61 reads
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Various
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war
3.2 · 36 votes · 135 reads
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Government and Politics
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
3.1 · 15 votes · 36 reads
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Various
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, ''That is all there was!'' But twist the
3.9 · 9 votes · 187 reads
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Feelings
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. - Hugo, Victor
3.4 · 34 votes · 185 reads
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Feelings
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
4.9 · 58 votes · 11 reads
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