I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BC
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I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCGod sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCThe ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BC