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One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1664

Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

—Brooks Atkinson, 1940

A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.

—Honoré de Balzac, 1830

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1940

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.

—Kalidasa, c. 450

The only equals are those who are equally rich.

—Burundian proverb

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

An unjust law is no law at all.

—Saint Augustine, 395

Anyone 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, 1821

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

—Doris Lessing, 1994

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

—Robert Wilson, 1991

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388