Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859
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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
—Boethius, c. 520There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our coconspirator, the sine qua non in all we do!
—Margaret Atwood, 2015Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCMan is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953