Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BC
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What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925