We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCThe planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbThe things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC