Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658
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The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCIt is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCSecrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverbWhat keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCAlcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825