Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BC
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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
—Aristophanes, c. 424 BCDarkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCExperience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928