What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125
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What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbI shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976