Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578
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All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947