Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BC
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Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanTo desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891