Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930
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What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCBecause the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 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, 1956The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405