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Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus55–120
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Space Shuttle “Challenger” Address (1986)
Errors of haste are seldom committed singly. The first time a man always does too much. And precisely on that account he commits a second error, and then he does too little.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), volume I, chapter VIII: “Religion”, page 307; letter to an unidentified German student (1879)
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: “Grief and Oblivion”
The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)In context
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus55–120Histories (A.D. 104-109).
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Tacitus55–120
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus55–120
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Post-presidency (1989–2004)