Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCJests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889