We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841