There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510