In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BC
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If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850