To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984