I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCThe mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125