Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCTime, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCOne need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977