The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001
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Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCGrown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931