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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

—Hesiod, c. 700 BC

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake. 

—Ovid, 10

Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

—Samuel Pepys, 1662

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

—André Gide, 1897

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

—Voltaire, 1770

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

—Florence King, 1989

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

—Victor Hugo, 1862

No one’s serious at seventeen.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961