The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799
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He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbRevolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCMemory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCThe twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880