Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCI have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911