I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BC
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One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCIf the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
—Rebecca West, 1939Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902