The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258
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What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCTrue originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCI’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestMake the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThose who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580