The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390
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Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533