He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692
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Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCBusiness? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCLanguage is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCI curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914