Quotes from authors born in 1788
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron
Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord Byron
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Paul Begala 
Martha Scott 
Asia Argento 
Mary McDonnell 
Malcolm McDowell 
James Cronin 
Mitch Hedberg 
Fernando Pessoa