A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCSuffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887