A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCIn Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThe self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCThere is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751