Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820
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The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980