He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
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Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868