Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCRewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCDrive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCNo one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverb