Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCThe mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIn the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC