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If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.

—Martial, c. 86

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

—Herman Melville, 1851

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.

—George Farquhar, 1702

Man 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, 1819

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

He who has nothing has no friends.

—Greek proverb

We 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. 1922

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900

How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BC

Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.

—Voltaire, 1759