Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939
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What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCSpeak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCTo be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BC