I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715
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Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657