Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BC