Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCSuch then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305No real friendship without absolute liberty.
—George Sand, 1866Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599