Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020
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It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCI cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BC