The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590
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Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCAll that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315