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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

—Horace, c. 8 BC

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.

—Margaret Atwood, 2000

To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.

—Milan Kundera, 1978

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

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.

—Alexandre Dumas, 1857

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.

—François Rabelais, 1535

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

—Albert Camus, 1951

The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.

—Tacitus, 117