He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951
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Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCFear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCHe laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbThe most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835