Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC