The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC
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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCAll pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCFamily! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625