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One man’s loss is another man’s profit.

—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.

—Louis Brandeis, 1928

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.

—Margot Asquith, 1922

Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

—T.S. Eliot, 1911

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

—Isaac Asimov, 1974

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939

The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.

—St. Francis de Sales, 1609

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

—Henry Adams, 1907

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC