";De nobis, post haec, tristis sententia fertur!:After all this, you still speak ill of us!"

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“Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.”

“The world laughs at another man's pain.”

“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”

“Virtue lies in the middle ground.”

“No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”

“Truth does not need to borrow garments from error.”

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"I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after."

— Oliver Cromwell

Politics1752–1853

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"I said it again as a German might. "Rabinovitz. Ich bin Lew Rabinowitz, LR, von Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Du Kennst?" And then I spoke Yiddish. "Und ich bin ein Yid. Farshtest?" And then in …"

— Joseph Heller

Literature1923–1999

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"And now that I have allowed myself the jest to which in this two-sided life hardly any page can be too serious to grant a place, I part with the book with deep seriousness, in the sure hope that soone…"

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy1788–1860

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"Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. While we speak, new worlds are sparkling forth—suns are throwing off their nebulae—nebulae are hardening into worlds. The Almighty p…"

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Politics1803–1873

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