Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732
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Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCCommunities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938