Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951
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My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbI am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCOur enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004I 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, 1863How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCOur whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751