Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862
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Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThe world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCSecrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyWorry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050