Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938
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There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCThe brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCFreedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960