Miscellaneous quotes
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Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXIII: On Drunkenness, Line 18.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Götz von Berlichingen, Act I (1773)
Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 5.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 13
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892My Psalm, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
Anatole France1844–1924Les Dieux Ont Soif [The Gods Are Thirsty] (1912), ch. XV
Samuel Beckett1906–1989Murphy (1938), Part I (p. 1)God gives us dreadful gifts. The most dreadful of all is memory.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012The Wish (p. 172)All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889)Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935The Path of the Law (1897)No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
E. B. White1899–1985Here is New York (1949)What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
Tacitus55–120Annals (117), Book XI, 24And striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), May-Day
