What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BC