Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108
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All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCExile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862