One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922
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Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbIf we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbThose who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64