There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC
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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCJests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbI do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.
—John Ruskin, 1860Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894