Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCOther nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BCI work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795