Apothegm Quotes

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Victor Hugo
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Lao Tzu
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Voltaire
“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

Oscar Wilde
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
Michel Legrand

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
Lily Tomlin

H.L. Mencken
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second series

Kurt Cobain
“You can't buy happiness”
Kurt Cobain