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You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

—Leon Trotsky

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

—Pablo Picasso, 1929

Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.

—Arabic proverb

Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.

—George Savile, c. 1690

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. 

—Plato, c. 348 BC

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BC

As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

—Havelock Ellis, 1914