The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCShame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.
—Martin Luther, 1569Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCGod gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813