Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255
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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCHe knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbA merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCRefrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859