Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924
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A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCCheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbThe brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCThat obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040