It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCMore pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BC