We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887
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This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCWithout virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCAll voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCThe severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258