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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

Time robs us of all, even of memory.

—Virgil, c. 40 BC

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

Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.

—Mencius, c. 290 BC

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

When arms speak, the laws are silent.

—Cicero, 52 BC

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835

There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.

—Increase Mather, 1684

We 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, 1995

I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.

—Robert Frost, 1959

Human happiness never remains long in the same place.

—Herodotus, c. 430 BC