Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC
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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbCharity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCHe who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600