It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963
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Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCOne doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverb