The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCWater its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCShame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797