For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCI curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808