Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844
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Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbAn honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbBig head, little wit.
—French proverbThere is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998