God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500
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Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCSecrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870