Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCPatriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993