The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCNo matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnRevolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCWhere happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbHome is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCKnowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCThousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957