Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930
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Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCAttend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865