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I) Sources & Topics with most visits

Most popular topics Most popular sources
α/αTopichits
1  Mistakes 112,292
2  Truth & Lies 66,492
3  Stupidity 53,367
4  Seduction 52,956
5  Win & Lose 52,887
6  Suicide 44,090
7  Victory & Defeat 37,018
8  Communism 34,005
9  Good & Evil 30,618
10  Death 30,233
11  War & Peace 29,606
12  Sex 27,303
13  Nudity 27,140
14  Hypocrisy 24,228
15  Shadow 23,623
16  Eroticism 21,527
17  Prostitution 20,274
18  Arguing 18,747
19  Ego 18,629
20  Strength & Weakness 18,340
21  Democracy 18,127
22  Optimism 17,889
23  Corruption 17,729
24  Solitude 17,609
25  Drinking 17,454
26  Right & Wrong 17,335
27  Cunning 17,172
28  Friendship 16,996
29  God 15,098
30  Destiny 14,369
31  Self-reliance 14,367
32  Revolution 14,353
33  Sports & Games 14,129
34  Enemies 13,948
35  Memory 13,683
36  Wolves 13,653
37  Hell 13,518
38  Woman 13,454
39  Boldness 13,351
40  Self-destruction 13,194
α/αSourceshits
1  Plato 81,557
2  Napoleon 50,767
3  Lenin 40,315
4  Oscar Wilde 28,315
5  Talleyrand 27,339
6  George Carlin 26,495
7  Voltaire 26,225
8  Democritus 23,010
9  Churchill 22,727
10  Marcus Aurelius 22,246
11  Mark Twain 21,767
12  Hitler 21,572
13  Benjamin Franklin 21,087
14  Epicurus 19,987
15  Fyodor Dostoyevsky 18,481
16  Diogenes 17,472
17  G. Bernard Shaw 16,857
18  Seneca 16,748
19  Isaac Asimov 16,083
20  Lao-Tzu 15,092
21  Nietzsche 13,925
22  Will Durant 13,534
23  Schopenhauer 13,260
24  Latin phrases 13,122
25  Cicero 12,855
26  Shakespeare 12,388
27  Euripides 12,043
28  Otto von Bismarck 11,913
29  H.L. Mencken 11,800
30  Harry Truman 11,006
31  Socrates 10,839
32  Blaise Pascal 10,430
33  Thomas Sowell 10,142
34  Wolfgang Goethe 10,047
35  Groucho Marx 9,932
36  Virgil 9,718
37  Julius Caesar 9,394
38  Ronald Reagan 9,379
39  Lord Chesterfield 9,056
40  George W. Bush 9,047



II) Quotations with most votes

  
Latin phraseWhile I breathe, I hope.

Dum spiro spero.

—  Latin phrase

234 likes
Isaac AsimovWhen stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

—  Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer

212 likes
HannibalI shall either find a way or make one.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.

—  Hannibal, 247-183 BC, Carthaginian military commander

     (crossing the Alps with his army around 212 BC)

191 likes
Latin phraseIf you want peace, prepare for war.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

—  Latin phrase

187 likes
Virgil If I cannot sway the heavens, I will raise hell.

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

179 likes
Remember to live.

Vivere memento.

—  Sundial motto

176 likes
VirgilFate will find a way.

Fata viam invenient.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

170 likes
CaligulaLet them hate, as long as they fear.

Oderint, dum metuant.

—  Caligula, 12-41 AD, Roman Emperor

     (originally a verse by the poet Accius)

169 likes
OvidBe patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim.

—  Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet

159 likes
Latin proverbWhat harms, often teaches.

Quod nocet, saepe docet.

—  Latin proverb

153 likes
Latin phraseRemember death.

Memento mori.

—  Latin phrase

151 likes
Faster, Higher, Stronger

Citius, Altius, Fortius.

—  Motto of the Olympic Games

     (initially, a motto of Pierre de Coubertin’s school)

147 likes
VirgilFortune favors the bold.

Audentes fortuna iuvat.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

144 likes
Aleister CrowleyBy the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.

—  Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist,

     (or V.V.V.V.V.; mentioned also in the graphic novel “V for Vendetta”)

132 likes
HoraceWe are but dust and shadow.

Pulvis et umbra sumus.

—  Horace, 65-8 BC, Roman poet

132 likes
Nothing but the best is good enough.

Nil satis nisi optimum.

—  motto of the Air Training Corps and of various schools

127 likes
VoltaireReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

—  Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer

126 likes
SenecaLet us live, since we must die.

Vivamus, moriendum est.

—  Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher

120 likes
Mark TwainNever argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

—  Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer

118 likes
SenecaIf you wish to be loved, love.

Si vis amari, ama.

—  Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher

109 likes
VirgilWe gather strength as we go.

Vires acquirit eundo.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

108 likes
Julius CaesarI came, I saw, I won.

Veni, vidi, vici.

—  Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul

     (message to the Senate after his victory over Pharnaces of Pontus in 47 BC)

107 likes
SocratesThere is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Εν μόνον αγαθόν είναι, την επιστήμην, και εν μόνον κακόν, την αμαθίαν.

—  Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher

106 likes
Latin phraseIf the winds fail you, use the oars.

Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe.

—  Latin phrase

105 likes
Latin phraseLook behind, look here, look ahead.

Espice, adspice, prospice.

—  Latin phrase

102 likes
Latin proverbWhere there is unity, there is victory.

Ubi concordia, ibi victoria.

—  Latin proverb

100 likes
Latin phraseEverything happens for a reason.

Omnia causa fiunt.

—  Latin phrase

100 likes
VirgilHard work conquers all.

Labor omnia vincit.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

99 likes
Old TestamentLet there be light.

Fiat Lux.

—  Old Testament

     (from the Vulgate)

98 likes
VirgilThey can because they think they can.

Possunt, quia posse videntur.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

97 likes
Adolf HitlerHow fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

—  Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator

94 likes
TerentiusThere are as many opinions as there are people: each has his own view.

Quot homines tot sententiae: suus cuique mos.

—  Terentius, c. 185-159 BC, Roman comic playwright

93 likes
Latin phraseActions not words.

Res, non verba.

—  Latin phrase

90 likes
Use the hours, don’t count them.

Utere, non numera.

—  Medieval Sundial Motto

88 likes
JuvenalDedicate your life to truth.

Vitam impendere vero.

—  Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet

87 likes
Pray and Work.

Ora et Labora.

—  Motto of the Benedictine Order

86 likes
Latin phraseHe conquers who conquers himself.

Vincit qui se vincit.

—  Latin phrase

85 likes
HippocratesFirst, do no harm.

Primum, non nocere.

—  Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine”

     (the origin is uncertain; Hippocrates’ works do not include this precise phrase)

83 likes
HippocratesArt is long, life is short.

Ars longa, vita brevis.

—  Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine”

83 likes
VirgilThus one journeys to the stars.

Sic itur ad astra.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

     (i.e. thus one reaches high)

83 likes


IIΙ) Less Popular

non-popular topics non-popular sources
 Topichits
   Understanding people 814
   Holes 837
   Housework 879
   Advertisement 892
   Italians 913
   Cars 962
   Systems 970
   Protection 995
   First phrases 1,001
   Meetings 1,006
   Cooking 1,025
   Colors 1,036
   Holidays 1,057
   New 1,072
   Property 1,076
   Acknowledgment 1,095
   Theory 1,107
   Ideas 1,115
   Conclusion 1,121
   Hypotheses 1,122
   Feminism 1,127
   Turmoil 1,128
   Obvious 1,129
   Consolation 1,133
   Cities 1,139
   Painting 1,145
   Quality 1,150
   Television 1,168
   Drugs 1,180
   Respect 1,182
   Computers 1,183
   Pigs 1,190
   Selling 1,203
   Victims 1,207
   Architecture 1,209
   Help 1,214
   Ideals 1,230
   Overcoming 1,237
   Complaints 1,251
   Quotations 1,258
   Order 1,258
   Searching 1,259
   Advice 1,266
   Waste 1,272
   Revelations 1,287
   Fatigue 1,292
   Beginning 1,298
   Fashion 1,303
   Events 1,314
   Refusal 1,318
 Sourceshits
   Frida Kahlo 129
   André Breton 292
   Stendhal 300
   Marguerite Yourcenar 304
   Agatha Christie 307
   François Rabelais 307
   Clausewitz 308
   Scott Fitzgerald 314
   Gottfried Leibnitz 345
   Lamartin 355
   Joseph Conrad 380
   Emily Dickinson 400
   Frank A. Clark 404
   Robert Heinlein 456
   Arthur Conan Doyle 462
   George Herbert 486
   Frank Herbert 487
   Chateaubriand 487
   Nikola Tesla 489
   Nicolas Chamfort 508
   Michael Caine 522
   Edgar Allan Poe 530
   Milan Kundera 565
   Philip Dick 579
   William Castle 586
   Robert Lowell 631
   Barbara Walters 661
   Earl Warren 687
   Ray Bradbury 690
   Dean Martin 740
   Stephen King 742
   Louisa May Alcott 751
   Robert M. Pirsig 760
   Napoleon Hill 771
   Athenaeus 810
   Mohamed Ali 813
   Paul Theroux 834
   Ernest Renan 840
   Bruce Lee 851
   Louise Glück 852
   Thomas Fuller 853
   Sophia Loren 860
   William Maxwell 862
   Lou Andreas-Salomé 867
   Susan Sontag 873
   Wilhelm Reich 874
   Spike Milligan 883
   Sydney Smith 888
   Douglas Adams 903
   Bill Cosby 910





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