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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989

If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843

We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.

—George Eliot, 1860

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

—Sigmund Freud, 1930

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

—Marianne Moore, 1935

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.

—Kalidasa, c. 450

Enemies are so stimulating.

—Katharine Hepburn, 1969

The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.

—Roman proverb

The gods play games with men as balls.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC