The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900
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He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCHow sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCAnimals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BC