Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925
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There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837