The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCA human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCWe are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCReal friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909