Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCAll of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbIf a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321