“All blood is alike ancient.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood”
Warren E. Burger
“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them”
Confucius
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one”
C.S. Lewis
“The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city and county, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.”
William Blake
“An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.”
Terry Pratchett
“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow”
Niccolo Machiavelli
