The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverb
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One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCLife’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989