Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCThe life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956