There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175
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Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverb’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCI am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815