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Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.

—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BC

Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.

—Sappho, c. 600 BC

The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

—Isaac Asimov, 1974

There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.

—Alexandre Dumas, 1846

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

—Iris Murdoch, 1974

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

—J. Paul Getty

A friend in power is a friend lost.

—Henry Adams, 1905

Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BC

What hath night to do with sleep?

—John Milton, 1637

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC

Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732