The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983
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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCAppearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCI do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807