Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BC
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The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCMan punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928