What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110
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I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797