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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

—Mark Twain, 1873

I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.

—Chris Rock, 2008

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

He who would be happy should stay at home.

—Greek proverb

An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid. 

—Jean Anouilh, 1944

Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

—Erica Jong, 1973

Nobody, sir, dies willingly.

—Antiphanes, c. 370 BC

There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.

—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969

Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.

—Lewis Mumford, 1962

The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.

—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1664