Quotes

I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.

—Lord Byron, 1817

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

With the dead there is no rivalry.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

—Epictetus, c. 100

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.

—W.B. Yeats, 1937

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330

Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 110

The man in constant fear is every day condemned.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

—Xenocrates, c. 350 BC

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.

—Helen Keller, 1928

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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