Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCYouth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655