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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

—Confucius, c. 500 BC

The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1971

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

—William James, 1902

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

—Arthur Miller, 1961

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

He laughs best who laughs last.

—French proverb

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

—Charles Lindbergh, 1948

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978

Life’s no resting, but a moving.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903