Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951
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The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631