Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999
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We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbMost new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942