People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCWhat experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856