’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642
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Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCTo hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbThose from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790