All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThere are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860I 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, 1804In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764In 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, 1774A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040