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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was born on September 15, 1613 in Rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, France. He was a noted French moralist, essayist and author of maxims and memoirs. Francois De La Rochefoucauld is best known for his maxims. He was part of the literary movement of classicism and was …

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Francis of Assisi Quotes

Francis of Assisi Quotes

Saint Francis of Assisi, also known in his ministry as Francesco was born 1182, in Assisi, Italy. He was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, mystic, and preacher. Francis of Assisi is one of the most venerated religious figures in Christianity. Saint Francis of Assisi abandoned a life of luxury for a life devoted to Christianity …

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Francis Bacon Quotes

Francis Bacon Quotes

Francis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January, 1561 in York House, London, United Kingdom. He was an English Renaissance statesman, lawyer, essayist and philosopher. Francis Bacon is best known for his promotion of the scientific method. In 1618, Francis Bacon was promoted to the lofty title of Lord Chancellor, one of the highest …

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Florence Nightingale Quotes

Florence Nightingale Quotes

Florence Nightingale was born on the 12th of May, 1820 in Florence, Italy. She was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Florence Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her lifetime, much of her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge. Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing figure in …

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Fidel Castro Quotes

Fidel Castro Quotes

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on the 13th of August, 1926 in Biran, Cuba. He was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until …

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. He was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his turbulent personal life and his famous novel ‘The Great Gatsby.’ During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and …

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Euripides Quotes

Euripides Quotes

Euripides was born in Salamis Island, Greece around 485 BC. Euripides was one of the great Athenian playwrights and poets of ancient Greece, known for the many tragedies he wrote, including ‘Medea’ and ‘The Bacchae.’ Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides wrote approximately 90 plays, 19 of which have survived through manuscripts. Unique among writers …

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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on the 21st of July, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. He was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and sportsman. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century. Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature …

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Erma Bombeck Quotes

Erma Bombeck Quotes

Erma Louise Bombeck was born on the 21st of February, 1927 in Bellbrook, Ohio, United States. She was an American humorist and writer who achieved great popularity from her syndicated newspaper humor column describing suburban home life. Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns between 1965 and April 17, 1996, using broad and sometimes eloquent …

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Epictetus Quotes

Epictetus Quotes

Epictetus was born in 50 AD as a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey). He was a Greek Stoic philosopher, who was influenced by Socrates, Diogenes, Zeno of Citium, Chrysippus, Hippocrates, Gaius Musonius Rufus and Cleanthes. When Epictetus was banished from Rome, he moved to Nicopolis in Epirus, Greece, where he spent the …

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