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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

—Colette, 1944

The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1610

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

—Herodotus, 440 BC

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

—Laozi, c. 550 BC

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

—Hermann Hesse, 1950

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

Only the little people pay taxes.

—Leona Helmsley, 1989

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600