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- Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
- We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
- Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
- Nothing is new except arrangement.
- Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
- Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
- [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
- No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
- Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
- If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
- In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
- It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
- Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
- Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
- Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
- To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
- The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
- The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
- There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
- When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
- History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
- As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
- A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
- Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
- Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento