Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverb
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The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BC