Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954
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Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCI have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCI would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913The 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, 1862Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781