So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BC
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Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BC