The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50
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What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCIn the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCI have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC