In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850
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A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCMany a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverb