A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905
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Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730