There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956
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Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCEverybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BC