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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. — Diogenes Laertius

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough. — Diogenes Laertius

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings. — Diogenes Laertius

A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. — Diogenes Laertius

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known. — Raheel Farooq

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words. — Diogenes Laertius

All is but illusion and disaster. — Voltaire

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door. — Abel Ferrara

There are so many people I wish I could have met: — Karolina Kurkova

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place. — Diogenes Laertius

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler

I don't know, I just feel like love isn't supposed to be so ... angsty, you know? Like, if it works, it shouldn't be so tortured.
-Oliver — Melissa De La Cruz

I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore. — Warren Spector

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another. — Diogenes Laertius

Time is the image of eternity. — Diogenes Laertius

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!" — Diogenes Laertius

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. — Diogenes Laertius

Is this a date? I mean, like, right now? You and me?"
"I don't know, Molly Barlow. Do you want it to be? — Katie Cotugno

I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes. — William Sleator

Stand a little less between me and the sun. Diogenes and I. — Diogenes Laertius

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him. — Diogenes Laertius

My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball' — J. R. Smith

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend. — Diogenes Laertius

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience! — Diogenes Laertius

Whichever you do, you will repent it. — Diogenes Laertius

Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised? — Diogenes Laertius

Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: To know one's self. — Diogenes Laertius

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing. — Diogenes Laertius

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.' — Anna Kendrick

Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves? — Diogenes Laertius

The tired ox treads with a firmer step — Diogenes Laertius

Step out of my sunlight. — Diogenes Laertius

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue. — Diogenes Laertius

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand. — George W. Bush

Man is the most intelligent of animals
and the most silly. — Diogenes Laertius