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Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

—George Santayana, 1920

The law looks at no one’s face.

—Gabriel Okara, 1964

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

—Plato, c. 375 BC

Happiness is no laughing matter.

—Richard Whately, 1843

This 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 BC

What 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 BC

Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.

—Mencius, c. 290 BC

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

—Francis Picabia, 1949

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

—Florence King, 1989

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

—Samuel Johnson, 1759

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596