Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BC
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I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCBeing thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCNature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635