Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961
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What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCCan you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonNo real friendship without absolute liberty.
—George Sand, 1866The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BC