We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953
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I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCRevolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886