The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCWell now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960