Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BC
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655