It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966
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Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BC‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962