An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944
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Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822