When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395
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Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946