When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989