A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69
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One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCHe who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbIt is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThere is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776