In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BC
Archive
Quotes
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCThe friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784