I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956
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The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbThe Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCShamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCThe populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCAvoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMen take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108