Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945
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Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCO, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599