There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60
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Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our coconspirator, the sine qua non in all we do!
—Margaret Atwood, 2015To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbTo hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCNature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCSeamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732