The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776
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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanIn my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BCEducation—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540Machines 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, 1934The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BC