Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC
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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCEvery man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925