I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715
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If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCMan must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738