No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BC
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Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781No real friendship without absolute liberty.
—George Sand, 1866I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCHow sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbGive me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCI am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715