Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797
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It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCOne doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774