True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbWell now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109