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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.

—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

—John Morley, 1872

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

—Jane Austen, 1814

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.

—John Gay, 1728

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

—Voltaire, 1764

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

—Hannah Arendt, 1958

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1666

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888