Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887This 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 BCI prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCNothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbThe main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983