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Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Multatuli

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch writer Multatuli.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli, was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies. He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.

Dutch - Writer | March 2, 1820 - February 19, 1887

Source: Wikipedia

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

Multatuli

Multatuli

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

Multatuli

Multatuli

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it. — © Multatuli

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

Multatuli

Multatuli

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

Multatuli

Multatuli

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Multatuli

Multatuli

Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

Multatuli

Multatuli

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

Multatuli

Multatuli

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

Multatuli

Multatuli

It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

Multatuli

Multatuli

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

Multatuli

Multatuli

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