Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972
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When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCA good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620