An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCAmong all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCThose who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCThe vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967