To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Quotes
He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbTwo crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbEvery fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbRevolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC