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La Bruy�re
, Jean de
France
1645 // 1696
70 Quotes
La Fontaine
, Jean de
France
1621 // 1695
42 Quotes
La Rochefoucauld
, Fran�ois
France
1613 // 1680
120 Quotes
Lama
, Dalai
Tibet
1935
10 Texts
69 Quotes
Lao-Tze
,
Ancient China
-570 // -490
7 Texts
58 Quotes
Laxness
, Halld�r
Iceland
1902 // 1998
7 Texts
20 Quotes
Le Bon
, Gustave
France
1841 // 1931
10 Texts
Leopardi
, Giacomo
Italy
1798 // 1837
9 Texts
Lessing
, Gotthold
Germany
1729 // 1781
20 Quotes
Levitt
, Theodore
United States
1925 // 2006
9 Quotes
Lichtenberg
, Georg
Germany
1742 // 1799
1 Text
90 Quotes
Lincoln
, Abraham
United States
1809 // 1865
98 Quotes
Lispector
, Clarice
Brazil
1920 // 1977
9 Texts
43 Quotes
Longfellow
, Henry
United States
1807 // 1882
109 Quotes
Lowell
, James
United States
1819 // 1891
20 Quotes
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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