With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839
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Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCKnowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCWater its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949