Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947
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Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCThere is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCIn peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCReading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843