A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverb
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCIf 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. 420We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCLife’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907