Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverb
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCAs is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbThe call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950