"The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support……" — Heinrich Heine
"The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers."
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172 Quotes by Heinrich Heine
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What lies lurk in kisses.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
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She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow…
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I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed,…
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In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk,…
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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Atheism is the last word of theism
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There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides…
— Aristotle
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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be…
— Charles Darwin
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My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure…
— James Boswell
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Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some…
— John Montgomery Ward
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