Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654
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It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCWhat one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborEvery man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCA large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934