Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920
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The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCHappiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCWhat 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 BCShamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCKnowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCDemocracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596