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All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

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, 1819

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.

—Suketu Mehta, 2019

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

—Ralph Nader, 2000

Kill 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, 1939

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

As he brews, so shall he drink.

—Ben Jonson, 1598

Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

—Epictetus, c. 100