The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910
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I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904