A few months ago I bought Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (17th edition) and I've slowly been reading my way through it's 863 pages of passages and phrases. I haven't even gotten through a quarter of it, but I wanted to share a few I thought were really good so far. I'll continue making posts of quotes as I go along.
"Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us." - Nietzsche
"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-tzu
"The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife." -Heraclitus
"When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them." - Euripides
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." - Euripides
"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge and no power." - Herodotus
"I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company." - Jonathan Swift
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." Swift
"Procrastination is the thief of time." - Edward Young
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." -Robert Frost
"In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzsche
"One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again." -Nietzsche
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