I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965
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Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCA large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCBetter sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922