I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535
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All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbA human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672