That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040
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There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbThat is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCThose who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BC