What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170
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I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCWe never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCThough the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCLife is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCWhen a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCOur entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780