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Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!

—Marie Corelli, 1911

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

—William Hazlitt, 1823

So many men, so many opinions.

—Terence, 161 BC

’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.

—Plautus, c. 180 BC

Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.

—Lionel Jospin, 1998

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

—Lord Byron, 1812

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1897

Moderation in all things.

—Terence, 166 BC

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

—Isaac Asimov, 1974

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983