Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCThere is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCFor what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCThere are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45