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My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCAnd your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCDo not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000