The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCNo time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250