We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCIn times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348