Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847
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Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCHe knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbHuman happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCWe often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCHatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851