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—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821
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Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbFriendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851