The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883
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All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601