Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BC
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCIf anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCNothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940