Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951
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The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCGod is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978