No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215
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Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCVery shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640