The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BC
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Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCWhen the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCHome is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BC