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You are dust, and to dust you shall return.

—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BC

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, 1979

Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.

—Sophocles, 440 BC

All art is a revolt against man’s fate.

—André Malraux, 1951

Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 108

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903

The 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, 1970

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

—Fernand Braudel, 1979

There 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, 1960

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

The 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, 1821

Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

The gods play games with men as balls.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC