“LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I so much love to disengage and disobligate myself, that I have sometimes looked upon ingratitudes, affronts, and indignities which I have received from those to whom either by nature or accident I was bound in some way of friendship, as an...”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“But the British parliament fixes its own quorum: our former assemblies fixed their own quorum: and one precedent in favour of power is stronger than an hundred against it.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbors—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,And asks no omen but his country's cause.”

― Homer, Iliad

“Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news: give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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