As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BC
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020