Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BC
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Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
—Samuel Pepys, 1662Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerI will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961