With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839
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I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCThe populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCI am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbKeep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795