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
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCIt’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCI do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978