The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbThe more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCA change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCWorry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCHe who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964