The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BC
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Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCTreaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641