When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BC
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Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCEveryone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCI never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCCheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbPolitics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877