What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCTravel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCWhat keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885