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Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1666

Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.

—Colette, 1944

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

—Aristophanes, c. 424 BC

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.

—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670

We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.

—Clark Gable, 1935

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—George Eliot, 1857

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

—Edith Konecky, 1976

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC