Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BC
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Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCHe that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865