No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyYou can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975