One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580
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Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871