I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BC
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The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCDo that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCIn our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCIf people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbKill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807