The flesh is sad and I have read all the books.
--Mallarmé
Scientism is the fallacy of believing that the method of science must be used on all forms of experience and, given time, will settle every issue.
--Jacques Barzun
No matter with what skill the great manage to seem other than they are, they cannot conceal their malignity.
--La Bruyère (1688)
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
--Horace Walpole
Pantagruel then asked, 'What people dwell in this fair bitch of an island?' 'They,' said Xenomanes, 'are all Hypocriticals, Dropsicals, Bead-tellers, purring Counterfeits, Sanctimonious, Black-beetles and Hermits: wretched folk, all of them, living on wayfarers' alms...'
--Rabelais
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