Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395
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God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960The 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, 1776Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCIf you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983