Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCA dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbIt is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardThe transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703