Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839
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Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCTreaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789