There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbDo not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbI care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.
—Leonard Cohen, 1970The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955