The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175
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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
—Athenaeus, c. 230Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonGod sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873