All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100