By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BC
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The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbI have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCRevolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903