Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600
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If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCMisfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCRevolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957