All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942
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Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleThe peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCSuffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BCFire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940