The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117
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Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCThe young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCThere is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625