To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819
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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbEvery creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929