Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934
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Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbFortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715For 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, 1879More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCAs usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963