To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45
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If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BC