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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

—Colette, 1944

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.

—Clover Adams, 1882

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

—Leigh Hunt, 1834

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

—Epictetus, c. 100

Nature never jests.

—Albrecht von Haller, 1751

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

—Evelyn Waugh, 1963

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

—Epicurus, c. 300 BC

The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.

—al-Busiri, c. 1250