Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654
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Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonNever trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCA friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—LaoziAppearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleThe Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929