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Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.

—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.

—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770

If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.

—Reggie Jackson, 1976

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

—Judge Learned Hand, 1944

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

—Eugene V. Debs, 1918

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!

—Willa Cather, 1915

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1962

As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

—Cicero, 45 BC

With the dead there is no rivalry.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839