I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC
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One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCHe who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbThe enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCAll men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616