A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCTime will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbBetter free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverb