Qotd

Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike lead to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repet

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Few among men are they who cross to the farther shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

You're so vainYou probably think this song is about you

Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.

I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely yearsBeen over the edge for yonks