We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BC
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The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbOur nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCIt’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891