There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCTime robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
—Giorgio Baglivi, c. 1696The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905