A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCI have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverbTwo things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679