A passion for horses, players, and gladiators seems to be the epidemic folly of the times. The child receives it in his mother’s womb; he brings it with him into the world, and in a mind so possessed, what room for science, or any generous purpose?
—Tacitus, c. 100
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Our 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 ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCI do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805