A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BC
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I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625