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Big head, little wit.

—French proverb

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.

—George Eliot, 1844

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.

—Mahalia Jackson, 1966

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1852

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924