I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BC
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The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859