There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BC
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Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCFamous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937