I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810
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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCMan is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbSo many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCEverything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCThere is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897