There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738
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I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCWe are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbI had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886