I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830
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Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCA merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCFriendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCWe are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbThere is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCThe moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BC