The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967
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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCA private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833