Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887
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To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCIf the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCSuperstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978