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Idolatry is the mother of all games.

—Novatian, c. 255

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.

—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BC

Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.

—Czesław Miłosz, 1960

Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Let 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, 1961

A dead enemy always smells good.

—Aulus Vitellius, 69

Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893

The 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, 1822

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

—Horace Walpole, 1777

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

—Timothy Titcomb, 1859