Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BC
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Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThe Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCArt is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverb