The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883
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Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005