Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCWe die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCThe friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BC