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Think rich. Look poor.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

—Havelock Ellis, 1914

The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

—Ira Berkow, 1987

A false report rides post.

—English proverb

It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

—James Hutton, 1795

An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

—Epicurus, c. 250 BC

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

—George Peabody, 1852

Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830