Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BC
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If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994