I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803
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He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCYou may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyThe spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807