Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827
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Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCFor what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbDo not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCHow gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BC