Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BC
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—Voltaire, 1769The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BC