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—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992
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Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCMy own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleMen are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCThe poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCYouth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897