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Opere citato: from the work already quoted; used to provide an endnote or footnote citation to refer the reader to an earlier citation; abbreviated op. cit.; also known as opus citatum.


I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ~Bertrand Russell


In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~Jean de La Bruyere, Characters, 1688


The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. ~Proverbs 28:1


Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ~Tryon Edwards


The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958


Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~Arnold Glasow


No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne


If your lens is prejudice, you're wearing the wrong prescription. ~Carrie Latet


On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ~Elizabeth Bowen


Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. ~Ovid


It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ~G.K. Chesterton It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment. ~Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning


History does not unfold: it piles up. ~Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth


Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. ~Agnes Sligh Turnbull


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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ~Fran Lebowitz


'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron