No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverb
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCA bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCThe happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCThe future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873