Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904
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Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCCalamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BC