Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BC
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Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCNo time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926