If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615
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I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCI shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858