One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664
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Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCAttend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbFear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388