The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888
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Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCPeace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbDisease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbA joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbAn unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858