To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833
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I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCArt is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCSome of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777