Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947
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Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCNot all heads have a brain.
—French proverbAs he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50