Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BC
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCTo outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821