Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800
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There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCSome men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874