No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverb
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCNo man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbA private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615