Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951
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Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCThe greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCWhat is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975