Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC
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The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCDance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCDo not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCDarkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930