The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390
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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCSo long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCMen take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878