To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCMammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCThe most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971