Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCEnemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605