Ideas across time
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523,390Total quotations and sayings
11,910With a historical date
511,480Undated words
Dates may describe an author’s lifetime or another approximate historical point, rather than when the words were composed. Undated entries are included in the complete collection and shown separately.
Each entry is counted once. The total includes quotations, proverbs, sayings, aphorisms, maxims and other passages. Approximate author or historical dates are not exact dates of composition.