What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972
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Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCWhen the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCThe only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746