There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651
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Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCIf you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255