Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612
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What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCTrade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCHow like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCWith the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839