According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794
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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC