To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678
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He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCFriendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951