**QUOTES**: Aristotle

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Category: Philosopher

Year of Birth: 384 BC

Year of Death: 322 BC

Nationality: Greek

• A friend to all is a friend to none.
• A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
• Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
• He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
• He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
• Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
• Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
• Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
• The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
• There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
• This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
• We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

**QUOTES**: Woody Allen

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Category: Movie Director

Date of Birth: December 1, 1935

Nationality: American

• And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
• Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
• How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
• I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
• I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
• I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
• I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
• I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'
• I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
• I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
• I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
• I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
• If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
• If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
• If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
• In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
• Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
• It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
• Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.
• Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
• Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
• The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
• The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

**QUOTES**: Isabelle Adjani

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Category: Actress

Date of Birth: June 27, 1955

Nationality: French

• I believe in angels, so it's simple.
• I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
• I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.
• I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.
• In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.
• One cannot love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering.
• One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
• There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
• You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

**QUOTES**: Douglas Adams

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Category: Writer
Date of Birth: March 11, 1952

Date of Death: May 11, 2001

Nationality: English

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
• He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
• I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
• In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
• Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.