No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961
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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCAll men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868