Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
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I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverbSurvivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397