Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875
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Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCNo nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCCows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796