A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897
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I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCI learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976