“Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.”
Novalis, quoted in George Macdonald Lilith
“the beasts of the wood themselves, which have no human reason or soul and that know so much more than we.”
Lord Dunsany
“The inner courtyard boasted a fountain, a stretch of lawn and some comparatively unobjectionable early baroque cloisters.”
Hans Hellmut Kirst The Night of the Generals [and credit translator J. Maxwell Brownjohn for rendering that "damning with faint praise" insult so well]
“I’m an entrepreneur and a capitalist. I like to spin straw into gold.”
Actor Dan Aykroyd, quoted in Ottawa Citizen October 20, 2000
"He's human all right. He's got to be. No other critter on earth would make such a fool of himself."
Bull Harris (about Sherrif J.P. Harrah) in El Dorado
“Possunt quia posse videntur” [“They can who think they can” or “They can because they believe they can.”]
Virgil, quoted by Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci according to izquotes.com/quote/leonardo-da-vinci/he-who-does-not-punish-evil-commands-it-to-be-done-275351
“The future is hidden even from the men who make it.”
Anatole France, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html