We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887
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Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820