Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930
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I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCPeople who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCCities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941