There 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. 175
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.
—Hélène Cixous, 1976I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BC