To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCBe a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCAny serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895