An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BC
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Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCSoldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Wood 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. 1790The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956