Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783
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Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651