Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906
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I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThose who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110