Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745
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To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961