I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCOne is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531