Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911
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To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BC’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCYes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCA multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCTo do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983