I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616
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Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCOne race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCBy the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWorry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728