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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Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCHe who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BC