Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972
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Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCDiseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCTo be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794