If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCLuck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCThe foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCThe most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777