Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas Jefferson
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCYears are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCI won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732