Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbMost authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonWe must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890