Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827
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You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCWhat is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515