When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918
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’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615