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—Pol Pot, 1975
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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCA difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCTwo crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851