Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BC
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The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCUnfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543