The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621
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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCThere are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCWe often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCI learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857