To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
—Georges Bataille, 1957Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCThe traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleDo not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020