The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400
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It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881