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Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.

—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.

—Novalis, c. 1798

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

—Francis Bacon, 1615

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Big head, little wit.

—French proverb

There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.

—Alexandre Dumas, 1846

If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

—Michael Harrington, 1962

Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.

—Gnomologia, 1732

Dread attends the unknown.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1998