Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCHe that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCThe root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BC