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What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1852

All pain is one malady with many names.

—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC

There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

—Mark Twain, 1894

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

—Albert Camus, 1957

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.

—Diane Arbus, c. 1950

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.

—Anna Quindlen, 2012

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

—Che Guevara, 1968

Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917

Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.

—Richard Brathwaite, 1631