Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108
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The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620