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The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.

—Tacitus, 117

I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

—Coretta Scott King, 1994

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.

—George Eliot, 1876

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971

I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.

—Philip K. Dick, 1972

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

—Jane Austen, 1818

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

—E. R. Dodds, 1951

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. 

—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175