What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbI am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878