The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
—Aristophanes, c. 424 BCI order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926