Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815
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Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCI am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCMen are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCHate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BC