When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCOf all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BC