I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715
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An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCGod is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC