A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BC
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Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.
—George Washington, 1786And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCI 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 large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934