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The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive. 

—Samuel Butler, c. 1888

Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

—William James, 1902

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

—Francis Bacon, c. 1600

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

—Montesquieu, 1748

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

—George Orwell, 1945

Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.

—German proverb

An unjust law is no law at all.

—Saint Augustine, 395

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858