He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807