Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816
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Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCWe cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCThe land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The Bible