No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962
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We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCAnyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbI proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbWhen you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971