The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884
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Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCAre we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCNew things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973