An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC
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Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCIn times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCI work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCInsurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795