Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BC
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To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCNever make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCTravelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599