We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963
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A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanI am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCThere is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCLo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCI was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing