“In short, you are all equal in everything except in ideas!”
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“Everything that is exact is short.”
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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
Lope De Vega book La Dorotea
Pero la vida es corta:
viviendo, todo falta;
muriendo, todo sobra.
Act III, sc. vii. Translation from Arthur Terry Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry (Cambridge: CUP, 1993) p. 118.
La Dorotea (1632)
“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
September 17, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
Karl Schroeder (1962) Author. Technology consultant
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 89).
“Everything can tend toward diminishing returns and unsustainability, […] even in the short term.”
James Howard Kunstler book The Long Emergency
Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 7, p. 240.
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
1921 - 1930
Source: 'Bauhaus prospectus 1929'; as quoted in Artists on Art, from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 444
Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted
Haunted (2005)
Variant: I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
