Não se destrói o vencido nem o seu aparelho de produção: o vencedor prova que o sabe no fim de uma grande guerra moderna. Não se aniquila uma classe perigosa, se ela deve ser explorada ou utilizada: as classes dominantes aplicam este preceito, sem o proclamar.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS A maior necessidade do mundo é a de homens — homens que se não comprem nem se vendam; homens que... ELLEN G. WHITE Ela afastou ligeiramente o cobertor; um assomo de raiva perpassou-lhe o olhar, endurecendo o rosto, ... JOãO TORDO - OK, suponhamos que vai à copa - disse ela -, e duas pessoas que quem gosta estão lá, suponhamos... EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém. Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Isso é mais uma coisa que aprendi com o tempo, sabe? O bem e o mal não existem! Quer dizer, existi... CAMILO GOMES JR. O reino de Deus não será avançado por nossas igrejas se encherem de pessoas, mas pelas pessoas em... HOWARD SPRING Não é por meio de debates e discussões que a mente é iluminada. Devemos olhar e viver. Nicodemos... ELLEN G. WHITE Evitar a felicidade com medo de que ela acabe, é o melhor meio de se tornar infeliz. ALBERT EINSTEIN O esclavagismo tem diversas versões; múltiplos regímenes. Não tem sempre a mesma forma. Nuns cas... LUíS NOVAIS Vai chegar um dia em que todos vamos estar mortos. Todos nós. Vai chegar um dia em que não vai sob... JOHN GREEN Mas além da arquitetura, os blogs também resolveram o problema das regras. Não existe (ainda) nen... LAWRENCE LESSIG Abajo hay miedo, sufrimiento y muerte. Hay guerra. Y todo parece ser tan normal que podríamos olvid... ARTURO USLAR PIETRI Corrijam-se mutuamente, não com ódio, mas com paz, como vocês têm no Evangelho. E ninguém fale ... BARNABE Epitáfio /J.L.Borges (?) Já somos a ausência que seremos. O pó elementar que nos ignor... HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE Digo-vos: praticai o bem. Porquê? O que ganhais com isso? Nada, não ganhais nada. Nem dinheiro, ne... FERNANDO PESSOA Ha sido evidentemente por aquello que llamamos responsabilidad que el primate se convirtió en human... FERNANDO SILVA SANTISTEBAN O que parece haver de desprezo entre homem e homem, de indiferente que permite que se mate gente sem... 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Nunca se aburr... CASSANDRA CLARE Nossos dias são muito curtos para que tomemos, nos próprios ombros, o peso dos erros de outrem. Ca... OSCAR WILDE Normalmente eu não tinha muita paciência para estar com uma gaja durante muito tempo. Cada uma del... BOAVENTURA CARDOSO Mas uma vez o senhor me disse: "Que Deus a abençoe! Que Deus a perdoe!" E se foi capaz de me dizer ... CHARLES DICKENS Seguir nosso desejo é o que nos torna livres, e o desejo é variável, mutante, inclassificável - ... MARTHA MEDEIROS Evidência circunstancial é uma coisa ilusória - respondeu Holmes de modo pensativo; - pode demons... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Sentada na cozinha, Denise pensava que a vida era como o estrume. Quando usado no jardim, servi... NICHOLAS SPARKS Quero hoje dizer-te uma coisa, algo que já sei há bastante tempo, e que também tu já sabes, mas ... HERMANN HESSE O amor, presidindo a ação, insinuava o prazer e o gozo. E confesso, de bom grado, que me persuadi ... JOHN CLELAND O exemplo máximo do homem prático, porque reúne a extrema concentração da acção com a sua ext... FERNANDO PESSOA - O quê!? Se tinha intenção de ofender o Dâmaso quando o ameacei de lhe arrancar as orelhas? De ... EçA DE QUEIRóS Tendemos a desejar que ninguém morra e nada termine daquilo que nos acompanha e é nosso amado cost... JAVIER MARíAS Parece que os velhos são capazes de ficar sentados um ao lado do outro sem dizerem nada e aind... NICHOLAS SPARKS [...] tenho de ouvir Mary Elizabeth falar sem parar de todas as coisas importantes que ela me mostra... STEPHEN CHBOSKY O andar de Enoque com Deus não foi em arrebatamento de sentidos ou visão, mas em todos os deveres ... ELLEN G. WHITE Hacer el amor con el poder también engendra dictadores que se disfrazan de demócratas, o demócrat... MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA Precisar tornar-se o que já se é é a característica da vida moderna. ZYGMUNT BAUMAN - Escute mais isso. Por outro lado, forças jovens, frescas, sucumbem em vão por falta de apoio, e ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Coitadinhos ou coitadinhas não devem ir a campo de batalha. Só atrapalham. Alguém gostaria de ter... JORGE KISHIKAWA Se somos um peixe maior que o tanque em que fomos criados, ao invés de nos adaptarmos a ele, devía... PAULO COELHO A poesia traz grande beleza à vida, mas também uma grande tristeza, e não tenho a certeza se a tr... NICHOLAS SPARKS Há um morcego de papel da festa das bruxas pendurado num cordão acima de sua cabeça; ele levanta ... KEN KESEY Resta-nos esclarecer a parte que nesse golfo fantástico cabe ao imaginário indireto, ou seja, o co... ITALO CALVINO O mito não passa da face misteriosa e oculta do Logos, que terá de ser continuamente por nós desv... ÂNGELO MONTEIRO [...]O que está faltando? Um nada, mas um nada que é tudo. Vocês têm a aparência da vida mas n�... HONORé DE BALZAC O Senhor chama homens que estejam dispostos a se porem no jugo com Cristo e com seus irmãos; homens... ELLEN G. WHITE Quando te vejo agora - movendo-se lentamente com uma nova vida crescendo dentro de você - espero qu... NICHOLAS SPARKS Lo que opinen o dejen de opinar las masas se considera falto de importancia. Se les puede conceder l... GEORGE ORWELL o ser humano é só carne e osso e uma tremenda vontade de complicar as coisas. VALTER HUGO MãE O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ... J.D. SALINGER Só quero dizer que aquilo que cada um de nós tiver de ser na vida, não o será pelas palavras que... JOSé SARAMAGO - Estou dizendo ao senhor. Sempre digo aos senhores funcionários da magistratura - prosseguiu o adv... LEO TOLSTOY Escrevo sem pensar tudo o que meu inconsciente grita. Penso depois: não só para corrigir, mas para... MáRIO DE ANDRADE E assim, quando os geeks e os tecnólogos defendem as tecnologias dos novos Armstrongs ou irmãos Wr... LAWRENCE LESSIG Sempre quis saber o que aconteceu com as crianças depois que voaram para longe... Eram apenas ... NEIL GAIMAN Meu filho, se você aceitar as minhas palavras e guardar no coração os meus mandamentos;
se der ou... JESUS CRISTO Há qualquer coisa de libertador associada à perda de tudo. Primeiro chora-se, depois fica-se atord... JUDITH MERKLE RILEY Existe um outro motivo para o fato dos blogs terem um ciclo de vida diferente dos principais meios d... LAWRENCE LESSIG Amanda olhou para ele - Tens de compreender que já não sou a rapariga que era dantes. Sou casada e... NICHOLAS SPARKS ...a vida humana é convívio. Para o ser humano, viver é conviver. É justamente na convivência, ... KáTIA ROCHA Como é que sabes que era amor? Bem, sabe-se que é amor quando tudo o que nos apetece fazer é... NICHOLAS SPARKS - Falhamos a vida, menino! - Creio que sim... Mas todo o mundo mais ou menos a falha. Isto é,... EçA DE QUEIRóS
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Common sense is not so common. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at ... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) 'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral f... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Self-love is the instrument of our preservation. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they kn... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and h... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some w... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Tears are the silent language of grief. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The best is the enemy of the good. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominabl... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boo... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man w... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is only through timidity that states are lost. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is ind... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, th... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pl... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those wh... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Paradise is Where I Am. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We are rarely proud when we are alone. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I die adoring God,loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to oursel... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no lo... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi... FRANçOIS AUGUSTE RENé RODIN All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised befo... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one’s ability. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each o... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of whic... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One may outwit another, but not all the others. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans t... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we h... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One forgives to the degree that one loves. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an art... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about ac... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The only thing constant in life is change FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have ha... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD