We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
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Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbOther nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbAbstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959