I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546
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What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbAll art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCToday’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890