In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
~ Blaise Pascal
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I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
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It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
~ Iain Banks
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