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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

—H.G. Wells, 1905

Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.

—Sappho, c. 600 BC

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.

—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BC

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1787

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

—Julia Child, 2001

The sick man is the parasite of society.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

—Xunzi, 250 BC

There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.

—William Howard Taft, 1921

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1610

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515