"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."

Marx, Karl on experience   

"What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!"

Byron, Lord on contradiction   

"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed."

Marx, Karl on landlords
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"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."

Marx, Karl on machinery   

"Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything."

Franklin, Benjamin on waste   

"A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward."

Nathan, George Jean on ambition   

"A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish."

Auden, W. H. on dream
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."

Freud, Sigmund on america
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"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."

Eliot, George on prophecy   

"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on humankind
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"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society."

Marx, Karl on politics   

"The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison."

Marx, Karl on ecology   

"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on desire
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"I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear
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"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult."

Hippocrates on doctors
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"God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool."

Hugo, Victor on flirting
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"The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum."

Ellis, Havelock on optimism
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"Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great."

Johnson, Samuel on dullness   

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

Orwell, George on freedom   

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Lincoln, Abraham on responsibility
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"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."

Forrest, Edwin on acting and actors   

"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."

Healey, Denis on taxes and taxation   

"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."

Goldman, Emma on causes   

"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."

Arendt, Hannah on violence