We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661
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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCIn my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCI am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815