Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985
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Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCA friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCNo man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963