What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958