God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964
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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCThe celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCThere’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600