To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678
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Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbA crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991