It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963
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The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbMuch money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleEvery man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975