The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCArt lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774