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There are great crimes in the world, but perhaps the greatest is to kill a love.

Quote by Bolesław Prus about love, criminals, world

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Quote by Oscar Arias Sanchez about liberty

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about idea

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

Quote by Simon Wiesenthal about violence, death

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Quote by Ray Charles about fame

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Quote by Horace Walpole about people, bills, man, things, world

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Quote by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet about generosity, charity

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

Quote by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet about weakness, fear

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

Quote by Emile Zola about opinion, fight, perfection, beauty, life

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

Quote by Samuel Daniel about fear, absent, danger, things

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela about literature, writing

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Quote by Georges Jacques Danton about politics, authority

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Quote by Lope de Vega about love, punishment, glory

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Quote by Hector Berlioz about time, teachers

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven about poetry, nation, poets

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

Quote by Sandra Cisneros about privacy, order, time, life

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about opinion, people

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Quote by Stendhal about genius, style

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Quote by Russell Hoban about opinion, waste, present, past, history, need, world, time

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Quote by Alfred Adler about death, progress, humanity, real estate, people