Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400
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Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbIn the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCGive us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966