I’m doomed to die, right? Why should I care if I go to Hades either with gout in my leg or a runner’s grace? Plenty of people will carry me there.
—Nicharchus, c. 90
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One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCA bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCThree may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
—Orson Welles, 1953Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCAnyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverb