Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776
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The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverbOnce you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100