What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723
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The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCSomeone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613