I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970
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One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbAll of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCOur whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64