They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BC
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The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746