Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930