The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117
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The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546