Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.
—Hélène Cixous, 1976Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693