When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941
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Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BC’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815