Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811
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Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCIf fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000