Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942
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Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCHe alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCThe only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732