That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040
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Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCLaughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712