People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975
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The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”
—Michel Serres, 1982The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCHealth indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbLuck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812