Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BC
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A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCPushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951