Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817
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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbTrue friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982