Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872
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The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCDisobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCA whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC