You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BC
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There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCAll art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC