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Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.

—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

By night an atheist half believes a God.

—Edward Young, c. 1745

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

—Seneca, c. 50

I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?

—Andy Warhol, 1970

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

I imagined it was more difficult to die. 

—Louis XIV, 1715

It was lonesome, the leaving.

—Wetatonmi, c. 1877

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.

—Gertrude Stein, 1935

Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.

—Lionel Jospin, 1998

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

—Umberto Eco, 1980