The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63
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Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC