Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BC
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Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCIt is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardCommunities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959