Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315
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Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCMoney, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonDemocracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BC