Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCThere is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCEveryone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915