If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615
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Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCThe less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977