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Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

—Robert Byrd, 2005

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

—John Locke, 1689

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1897

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

—William Blake, 1793

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

A dead enemy always smells good.

—Aulus Vitellius, 69

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

—Plato, c. 375 BC

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.

—William Saroyan, 1943