Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128
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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThere is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCThe legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCTo achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949