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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

The world is everything that is the case.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 1 (1922)

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Reported in Donald Sutherland, Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work (1951). Stein's companion Alice B. Toklas, who was with her at her death, reported Stein's words as, "What is the answer? ... In that case... what is the question?" (Alice B. Toklas, What Is Remembered [1963]), and did not identify these specifically as the last words.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.300, Lulu.com

I'm in a glass case of emotion

FaceBook post by Will Ferrell from Jan 19, 2012

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

"Q&A: Vince Gill and Paul Franklin Get Steely With ‘Bakersfield’ Salute". Interview with Chris Willman, www.yahoo.com. July 31, 2013.