The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC
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So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCThe less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870