These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCThe first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCAll paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCMotherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BC