The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50
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Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832