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Hast thou lived all these years, and learned but now
That every man more loveth his own head
Than other men’s?
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 1, spoken by AttendantIn context
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Aesop620–564 BCAesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Gamecocks and the Partridge – The Dove and the CrowIn context
- Friendship
Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.
Aesop620–564 BCAesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Bald Knight – The Woman and Her HenIn context
- Beauty
You’ve only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think: “Oh Lord, you’ve given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by LopakhinIn context
- Nature
This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Woman in White (1860), First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, IIn context
- Courage
I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own.
KCKurt Cobain1967–1994Journals (2002)