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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

—Joseph Stalin, 1934

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

—Margaret Atwood, 1976

I have loved war too well.

—Louis XIV, 1715

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880

Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.

—Blaise Pascal, 1658

It was lonesome, the leaving.

—Wetatonmi, c. 1877

So many men, so many opinions.

—Terence, 161 BC

As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

—Havelock Ellis, 1914

It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963