See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardLet him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCLove is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanFriendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCEvery individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverb