Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922
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The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCNothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BC