All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893
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Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbI began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCInsurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCFate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCThe oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880The 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