I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BC
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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCI never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCThe ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774