If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86
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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCFriendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbWe are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCHappiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759