If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500
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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCIt is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555